A Madcap Cruise
A MADCAP
CRUISE
By ORIC BATES
Boston and New York
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1905
COPYRIGHT 1905 BY ORIC BATES
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published March 1905
TO
MY FATHER
Contents
| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | The Cardinal Points | 1 |
| II. | The Fog comes in | 19 |
| III. | It blows Southeast | 36 |
| IV. | It blows Northwest | 50 |
| V. | Land Ho! | 64 |
| VI. | Dinner Ashore | 81 |
| VII. | Luncheon Aboard | 104 |
| VIII. | A Change of Tactics | 129 |
| IX. | The Doldrums | 147 |
| X. | Mr. Wrenmarsh, the Extraordinary | 163 |
| XI. | A Lone-Hand Game | 199 |
| XII. | At Vergil's Tomb | 228 |
| XIII. | A Bid for the Odd Trick | 240 |
| XIV. | Clearing the Decks | 250 |
| XV. | In the Cattewater | 263 |
| XVI. | Storm! | 288 |
| XVII. | Facing the Music | 310 |
| XVIII. | Epilude | 327 |
A MADCAP CRUISE
Chapter One THE CARDINAL POINTS
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