  CHAPTER III. THE WAY OF A MAID WITH A MAN CHAPTER IV. SUNK WITHOUT TRACE CHAPTER V. A DEAL WITH "PLAIN SAILIN' JIM" CHAPTER VI. PEARLS OF GREAT PRICE! CHAPTER VII. BEATEN ON THE POST CHAPTER X. IRON LAW, OR THE QUEEN OF UTIALI CHAPTER XI. THE STORY OF BILLY BROKE CHAPTER XII. THE MAKING OF A MILLIONAIRE CHAPTER XIV. UNDER THE FLAME TREES CHAPTER XV. THE ABBOTT MYSTERY FOREWORD I met Billy Harman on Circular Wharf, Sydney, so many years ago that I think he must be dead. He is the chief person in the first six stories of this book, which have appeared illustrated in an English, an American and a Canadian magazine, in all of which the illustrator depicted Billy as a young, rather good-looking man. That he was not. Billy, when I met him, was well over forty, big and scrubby-bearded, a shell-back with a touch of the Longshoreman, blue far-seeing eyes, the eyes of a child—and an innocence none the less delightful because streaked with guile. Only the sea could have produced Billy, and the Islands and the Beaches and the life which the Pacific makes possible for an Ocean Tramp. |
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