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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A shuffling quick step on the path; a running grumble of unmistakable threats; a shambling moonlit figure seen in glimpses through the leaves, very near us for an instant, then hidden by the shrubbery as he passed within a few yards of our hiding-place. A diminuendo of the shuffling steps; then a cursing,


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