THE DEEP SEA’S TOLL [Illustration: “’Tis Tommie I’m after,” hollers back the Skipper. --See page 34.] THE DEEP SEA’S TOLL BY JAMES B. CONNOLLY AUTHOR OF “OUT OF GLOUCESTER,” “THE SEINERS,” ETC. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY _W. J. Aylward & H. Reuterdahl_ CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS NEW YORK :::::::: 1905 COPYRIGHT, 1905, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Published, September, 1905 TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK CONTENTS PAGE THE SAIL-CARRIERS 1 THE WICKED “CELESTINE” 41 THE TRUTH OF THE OLIVER CROMWELL 71 STRATEGY AND SEAMANSHIP 133 DORY-MATES 159 THE SALVING OF THE BARK FULLER 199 ON GEORGES SHOALS 243 PATSIE ODDIE’S BLACK NIGHT 273 ILLUSTRATIONS “’Tis Tommie I’m after,” hollers back the Skipper _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE “All the looseness in my oil-pants is ketched tight” 26 What’s that a-drivin’ in from sea, like a ghost from out 32 Stood by and took them as they came down 64 A tug bore down and hailed them 68 He was having another mug-up for himself 114 The _Lucy_ was acting like a vessel trying to coax the other 152 “You just try it--just let me see you try it, Sam Leary” 234 The Sail-Carriers It was a howling gale outside, but howling gales were common things to Peter, and he did not see why this one need hinder his taking a little stroll along the docks. Something in the appearance of the vessel just rounding the Point helped to give new life to the idea he had been entertaining for some minutes now--that a little trip along the harbor front wouldn’t be a half bad notion.