Produced by Al Haines. Adrift in the Unknown OR, Queer Adventures in a Queer Realm By WILLIAM WALLACE COOK Author of "The Paymaster’s Special," "A Deep-sea Game," "In the Web," "His Friend the Enemy," etc. STREET & SMITH CORPORATION PUBLISHERS 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York *A CARNIVAL OF ACTION* *ADVENTURE LIBRARY* *Splendid, Interesting, Big Stories* For the present the Adventure Library will be devoted to the publication of stories by William Wallace Cook. The fact that one man wrote all of these stories in no way detracts from their interest, as they are all very different in plot and locality. For example, the action in one story takes place in "The Land of Little Rain;" another deals with adventure on the high seas; another is a good railroad story; others are splendid Western stories; and some are mystery stories. All of them, however, are stories of vigorous adventure drawn true to life, which gives them the thrill that all really good fiction should have. Copyright 1904-1906 By Frank A. Munsey Co. Adrift in the Unknown (Printed In the United States of America) *CONTENTS* I. Lost, Strayed, or Stolen? II. An Uninvited Guest III. Professor Quinn’s Feat IV. The Plutocrats Reconciled V. Traveling Sunward VI. A Landing Effected VII. Facing a Mercurial Storm VIII. The Mercurials IX. Learning the Word-Box X. How We were Catalogued XI. The Dilemma of Mr. Meigs XII. Condemned to Death XIII. A Threatening Calamity XIV. Plan to Steal a Building XV. Surveying our own Planet XVI. How Ill-Luck Overtook Me XVII. A Change of Heart XVIII. How We Outwitted the King XIX. Back to Earth *ADRIFT IN THE UNKNOWN.* *CHAPTER I.* *LOST, STRAYED, OR STOLEN?* There could be no more fitting introduction to this most amazing narrative from the pen of James Peter Munn than that article in the _Morning Mercury_. Munn, it is no breach of confidence to inform the reader, was a reformed burglar; although the author of two books which achieved large sales and were most favorably received by the reviewers—"Forty Ways of Cracking Safes" and "The Sandbagger’s Manual"—Mr. Munn developed small skill with the pen, so that the breathless interest aroused by his revelations hangs more upon the matter than the style. The _Mercury_ article should do its mite toward preparing the reader for what is to come. In the first place, the story was what newspaper men call a "scoop."