The SaintofThe Speedway
by
Ridgwell Cullum
McClelland and Stewart
Publishers : : Toronto
Copyright, 1924,
By George H. Doran Company
Colophon
The Saint of the Speedway
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Printed in the United States of America
If the reader will cast a thought back to the classic sea mystery of theMarie Celeste, it will be clear how much this book owes its inception to the extraordinary derelict, the mystery of which remains unsolved to this day. But the author disclaims any attempt in the following pages to offer a solution of the mystery and has only used certain of the features surrounding the condition of theMarie Celesteat the time she was found abandoned in mid-ocean for the purposes of his story-narrative.
CHAPTERPAGEIThe Adventurers11IIThe Headland23IIIIn Beacon Glory40IVThe Great Disaster55VEight Months Later—On the Lias River68VIA Bunch of Humanity82VIIThe Speedway94VIIIThe Man from Lias River104IXThe Aurora Clan121XThe Haunt of the Clansmen134XIThe Wreck at the River Mouth142XIITheLimpetof Boston156XIIIThe “Come-back”169XIVIn the Sunshine179XVThe Man from the Hills196XVIThe Lazaret209XVIILinks in a Chain225XVIIIMcLagan Achieves an End243XIXMcLagan Returns from the Hills256XXThe Last of the Moving Shadow276XXIJulian Caspar at Bay289XXIIThe Quitting311XXIIIThe Passing of the “Chief-Light”322