Produced by Taavi Kalju, Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) GODFREY MORGAN A CALIFORNIAN MYSTERY BY JULES VERNE ILLUSTRATED _AUTHOR'S COPYRIGHT EDITION_ LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & COMPANY, _Limited_. [Illustration: "Going! Going!" _page 15_] CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAGE In which the reader has the opportunity of buying an Island in the Pacific Ocean 1 CHAPTER II. How William W. Kolderup, of San Francisco, was at loggerheads with J. R. Taskinar, of Stockton 11 CHAPTER III. The conversation of Phina Hollaney and Godfrey Morgan, with a piano accompaniment 24 CHAPTER IV. In which T. Artelett, otherwise Tartlet, is duly introduced to the reader 35 CHAPTER V. In which they prepare to go, and at the end of which they go for good 43 CHAPTER VI. In which the reader makes the acquaintance of a new personage 53 CHAPTER VII. In which it will be seen that William W. Kolderup was probably right in insuring his ship 62 CHAPTER VIII. Which leads Godfrey to bitter reflections on the mania for travelling 77 CHAPTER IX. In which it is shown that Crusoes do not have everything as they wish 91 CHAPTER X. In which Godfrey does what any other shipwrecked man would have done under the circumstances 104 CHAPTER XI. In which the question of lodging is solved as well as it could be 117 CHAPTER XII. Which ends with a thunder-bolt 129 CHAPTER XIII. In which Godfrey again sees a slight smoke over another part of the Island 143 CHAPTER XIV. Wherein Godfrey finds some wreckage, to which he and his companion give a hearty welcome 155 CHAPTER XV. In which there happens what happens at least once in the life of every Crusoe, real or imaginary 167 CHAPTER XVI. In which something happens which cannot fail to surprise the reader 179 CHAPTER XVII. In which Professor Tartlet's gun really does marvels 190 CHAPTER XVIII. Which treats of the moral and physical education of a simple native of the Pacific 203 CHAPTER XIX.