Chapter I: Front Matter

The Saint of the Speedway
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Ridgwell Cullum

The Saint

of

The Speedway

by

Ridgwell Cullum

McClelland and Stewart
Publishers : : Toronto

Copyright, 1924,

By George H. Doran Company

The Saint of the Speedway

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Printed in the United States of America

Foreword

If the reader will cast a thought back to the classic sea mystery of the _Marie 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 the _Marie Celeste_ at the time she was found abandoned in mid-ocean for the purposes of his story-narrative.

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE

I The Adventurers 11

II The Headland 23

III In Beacon Glory 40

IV The Great Disaster 55

V Eight Months Later--On the Lias River 68

VI A Bunch of Humanity 82

VII The Speedway 94

VIII The Man from Lias River 104

IX The Aurora Clan 121

X The Haunt of the Clansmen 134

XI The Wreck at the River Mouth 142

XII The _Limpet_ of Boston 156

XIII The “Come-back” 169

XIV In the Sunshine 179

XV The Man from the Hills 196

XVI The Lazaret 209

XVII Links in a Chain 225

XVIII McLagan Achieves an End 243

XIX McLagan Returns from the Hills 256

XX The Last of the Moving Shadow 276

XXI Julian Caspar at Bay 289

XXII The Quitting 311

XXIII The Passing of the “Chief-Light” 322

The Saint of the Speedway