Project Gutenberg Etext of Dead Men Tell No Tales, by EW Hornung #3 in our series by E. W. Hornung

Dead Men Tell No Tales

by E. W. Hornung

CONTENTS

* Chapter I Love on the Ocean

* Chapter II The Mysterious Cargo

* Chapter III To the Water’s Edge

* Chapter IV The Silent Sea

* Chapter V My Reward

* Chapter VI The Sole Survivor

* Chapter V I Find a Friend

* Chapter VI A Small Precaution

* Chapter VII My Convalescent Home

* Chapter VIII Wine and Weakness

* Chapter IX I Live Again

* Chapter X My Lady’s Bidding


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stand firmly before springing upon the pinnacle with which I completed it. I knew well that this would collapse under me if I allowed my weight to rest more than an instant upon it. And so at last it did; but my fingers had clutched the coping in time; had grabbed it even as the insecure pyramid crumbled and left me dangling.


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