Transcriber’s Note: Italics are enclosed in _underscores_. Additional notes will be found near the end of this ebook. BOOKS BY RALPH D. PAINE PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS CAMPUS DAYS. Illustrated. 12mo $1.50 SANDY SAWYER, SOPHOMORE. Illustrated. 12mo $1.50 THE STROKE OAR. Illustrated. 12mo $1.50 THE FUGITIVE FRESHMAN. Illustrated. 12mo $1.50 THE HEAD COACH. Illustrated. 12mo $1.50 COLLEGE YEARS. Illustrated. 12mo $1.50 THE STEAM-SHOVEL MAN. Illustrated. 12mo _net_ $1.00 THE DRAGON AND THE CROSS. Illustrated. 12mo $1.25 THE WRECKING MASTER. Illustrated. 12mo $1.25 A CADET OF THE BLACK STAR LINE. Illustrated. 12mo $1.25 THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN O’SHEA. 12mo _net_ $1.35 THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN O’SHEA THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN O’SHEA BY RALPH D. PAINE NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1913 COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Published September, 1913 [Illustration] CONTENTS PAGE I. THE CASTAWAYS 3 II. THE KING OF TRINADARO 133 III. THE LINER “ALSATIAN” 195 IV. THE BRANDED MAN 250 THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN O’SHEA THE CASTAWAYS I When the Cubans, led by Gomez and Maceo, were waging their final rebellion against the immemorial tyranny of Spain, it may be recalled that there was much filibustering out of American ports, and a lively demand for seafaring men of an intrepid temper who could be relied on to keep their eyes open and their mouths shut. Such a one was young Captain O’Shea, and, moreover, he was no amateur at this ticklish industry, having already “jolted one presidente off his perch in Hayti, and set fire to the coat-tails of another one in Honduras,” as he explained to the swarthy gentlemen of the Cuban Junta in New York, who passed on his credentials.