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CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

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• I. A STRANGE COUNTRY IN THE WATERS 9

• II. A RARE INTRUDER 13

• III. MRS. BARRE AND MISS DARE 24

• IV. A PRETTY SCENE AND ITS BREAKING-UP 33

• V. A WALK AND THE END OF IT 46

• VI. A FEW MOMENTS OF TWO YOUNG PEOPLE'S
  LIVES 52

• VII. A WRITTEN ROCK AND SOMETHING MORE 56

• VIII. TRUE WORDS ARE SOMETIMES VERY HEAVY 66

• IX. SKIPPER GEORGE'S STORY 74

• X. A MEETING 93

• XI. SOME GOSSIP AND SOME REAL LIFE 102

• XII. TWO MEET AGAIN 108

• XIII. A SAD YOUNG HEART 117

• XIV. A GREAT LOSS 122

• XV. A NEW MAN 135

• XVI. TRACES OF THE LOST 142

• XVII. SEARCHING STILL 158

• XVIII. WHICH WAY SUSPICION LEADS 167

• XIX. THE DAY FOR REST 174

• XX. SUSPECTED PERSONS 182

• XXI. AN OFFICIAL EXAMINATION, FROM WHICH
  SOMETHING APPEARS 192

• XXII. AN OLD SMUGGLER 206

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• XXIII. AN INTERVIEW OF TWO WHO HAVE MET BEFORE
  217

• XXIV. THE NEW PRIEST AT BAY-HARBOR 230

• XXV. A CALL AT A NUNNERY 244

• XXVI. THE MAGISTRATE DEALS WITH OTHER SUSPICIOUS
  PERSONS 259

• XXVII. MR. BANGS HAS AN INTERVIEW WITH THE
  HEAD OF THE MISSION 270

• XXVIII. ANOTHER RELIC FOUND 282

• XXIX. MR. BANGS A NEOPHYTE 287

• XXX. MRS. BARRE'S SAD WALK 303