[Illustration: WHEN WADE SAW HE COULD NOT ESCAPE, HE LEAPED UPON THE RAIL, AND THEN JUMPED OVERBOARD.--Page 220.] JUST HIS LUCK BY OLIVER OPTIC BOSTON LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO. COPYRIGHT, 1877, BY LEE AND SHEPARD COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY ALICE ADAMS RUSSELL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED JUST HIS LUCK CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. PEACHES AND A HORSEWHIP 7 CHAPTER II. SUPPERLESS TO BED 15 CHAPTER III. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE NIGHT 23 CHAPTER IV. LODGINGS AFLOAT 31 CHAPTER V. HOW IT WAS DONE 39 CHAPTER VI. DOWN THE RIVER 47 CHAPTER VII. A STRIKE FOR INDEPENDENCE 55 CHAPTER VIII. THE BATTLE IN THE BOAT 63 CHAPTER IX. CAUGHT IN THE ACT 71 CHAPTER X. A STRAIGHTFORWARD STATEMENT 79 CHAPTER XI. A HUNGRY SKIPPER 87 CHAPTER XII. WADE BROOKS MAKES A TRADE 95 CHAPTER XIII. TWO WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT 103 CHAPTER XIV. WADE BROOKS’S FRIEND 110 CHAPTER XV. A NEW YORK SAINT 118 CHAPTER XVI. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING 126 CHAPTER XVII. AT THE LODGING-HOUSE 133 CHAPTER XVIII. A NIGHT ADVENTURE 141 CHAPTER XIX. AN EARLY BREAKFAST FOR TWO 149 CHAPTER XX. A LATE DINNER 157 CHAPTER XXI. THE GHOST OF THE STATE-ROOM 165 CHAPTER XXII. CAPT. BENDIG’S PROMISE 173 CHAPTER XXIII. IMMENSE RICHES 181 CHAPTER XXIV. UNWELCOME PASSENGERS 189 CHAPTER XXV. BOUND TO A SICKLY CLIMATE 197 CHAPTER XXVI. ANOTHER UNEXPECTED MEETING 205 CHAPTER XXVII. ESCAPED OVERBOARD 213 CHAPTER XXVIII. THE LORDS OF THE SEA 221 CHAPTER XXIX. CAPT. BENDIG’S BLUNDER 229 CHAPTER XXX. THE SEARCH AND THE ARREST 237 CHAPTER XXXI. A FULL CONFESSION 245 CHAPTER XXXII. EVEN-HANDED JUSTICE 253 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR 261 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE EMPLOYMENT OFFICE 269 CHAPTER XXXV. THE BENEVOLENT BROKER 277 CHAPTER XXXVI. THE NEW CASHIER 285 CHAPTER XXXVII. JUST HIS LUCK AGAIN! 293