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
but I had little dreamt how strong she really was. First it was her arms that wound themselves about my neck, long, sinuous, and supple as the tentacles of some vile monster; then, as I struggled, her thumbs were on my windpipe like pads of steel. Tighter she pressed, and tighter yet. My eyeballs started;