  CHAPTER I A REPUTATION QUESTIONED CHAPTER IV "SLANT" ALLEN RETIRES AGAIN CHAPTER VI COMPULSORY VOLUNTEERING CHAPTER VIII I LEAVE THE ISLAND CHAPTER IX A GRIM TALE OF THE SEA CHAPTER XI A HERO'S HOMECOMING CHAPTER XIII THE SCENE OF THE FINAL DRAMA CHAPTER XIV HELL'S HATCHES OFF NEW FICTION THE CURTAIN By Alexander Macfarlan THE SYRENS By Dot Allan OLD MAN'S YOUTH By William de Morgan THE PURPLE HEIGHTS By M. C. Oemler HAGAR'S HOARD By George Kibbe Turner THE VILLA OF THE PEACOCK By Richard Dehan IN CHANCERY By John Galsworthy SNOW OVER ELDEN By Thomas Moult EUDOCIA By Eden Phillpotts LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN 21, Bedford Street, W.C. 2 HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc. [Illustration: 1921] LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A Reputation Questioned 1 II Hard-Bit Derelicts 10 III The Girl Herself 25 IV "Slant" Allen Retires Again 38 V A Ship of Death 50 VI Compulsory Volunteering 65 VII Rona Comes Aboard 80 VIII I Leave the Island 93 IX A Grim Tale of the Sea 106 X Art and Suspense 124 XI A Hero's Homecoming 142 XII A Bad Man's Plea 180 XIII The Scene of the Final Drama 193 XIV Hell's Hatches Off 206 XV The Face 220 XVI A Sudden Visitor 231 XVII Down the Flume 255 XVIII The Masterpiece 268 XIX After All 282 HELL'S HATCHES |
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