tk ^Mi — ^ (VTTT ^^^^^j£ ^ ^ :r,sity '^«^ c«i!fORN!« uep*Ry of the univfrs! p A 1 1 f n ^ w I /, n .u I p n ^ ^A^^^^^^^ OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CUIFORNIA LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY Of I ^ OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY n( Digitized by tine Internet Arciiive in 2008 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.arcliive.org/details/bluelagoonromancOOstacricli THE ADELPHI LIBRARY THE BLUE LAGOON THE ADELPHI LIBRARY 1. THROUGH SOKKOWSGATES. 34. AN OUTCAST OF THE By H ALU WELL SCTCLIFFK. ISLANDS. By )oseph Conrad. 2. THE CANON IN RESIDENCE. 35. LIZA OF LAMBETH. By Victor L. Whitechurch By W. Somerset Maugham. 3. EVELYN INNES. 36. THE LADY OF THE DARK Bv George Moore. HOUSE. 4. THE BEETLE. A Mystery. By C. N. WlLLIAklSON. By Richard Marsh. 37 THE DOCTOR. 5. THE PORTENT AND OTHER By H. DE VERB Stacpoole. STORIES. 38. PACIFIC TALES. Bv George Macdonald. By Louis Beckx. 6. SISTER TERESA. 39. THE TRAIL OF 98. By George Moore. By Robert W. Service. 7. THE HAUNTS OF MEN. 40. THE WAY OF AN EAGLE. By R. W. Chambers. Bv Etmel M. Dell. 8. TALES OF UNREST. 41. THE KNAVE OF DIAMONDS. Bv Joseph Conrad. Bv Ethel M. Dell. 9. WILLOWDENE WILL. 42. BY REEF AND PALM and By Halliwell Sutcliffe. THE EBBING OF THE TIDE. 10. THETALES OF JOHN OLIVER By Louis Becke. HOBBES{Mrs. Craigie). 43. THE ROCKS OF VALPRE. 11. THE LILAC SUNBONNET. By Ethel M. Dell. By S. R. Crockett. 44. YOUNG EARNEST. IX THE RAIDERS. By Gilbert Cannan By S. R. Crockett. 45. THE GREAT TEMPTATION. 13. THE BLUE LAGOON By Richard Marsh. By H. DE Verb Stacpoole. 46. ROSE COTTINGHAM MAR- 14. RICROFT OF WITHENS. RIED. Bv Netta Syrett. By Halliweix Sutcliffe. 47. THE SWINDLER AND OTHER 15. MISTRESS BARBARA CUN- STORIES. ByETHEL M. Dell. LIFFE. 48. THE KEEPER OF THE DOOR. By Halliwell Sutcliffe. By Etnel M. Dell. 16. THE SHULAMITE. 49. THE SAFETY CURTAIN AND By Alice and Claude Askew OTHER STORIES. 17. THE EBBING OF THE TIDE. Bv Ethel M. Dell. By Louis Becke. 50. GREATHEART. 18. SHAMELESS WAYNE. By Ethel M. Dell. By Halliwell Sutcliffe. 51. THE WOMAN DEBORAH. 19. DREAMS AND DREAM LIFE By Alice and Claude Askew. AND REAL LIFE. Si. THE SECOND BLOOMING. By OlJVE SCHREINER. By W. L. Georgx. ao. THE CRIMSON AZALEAS. 53. THE STRANGERS' WEDDING. By H. DE vkrk Stacpoole. By W. L. George. »l. THE LADY NOGGS. 54. ENCHANTMENT. By Edgar Tepson. By E. Temple Thurston. St. PATSY. 55. THE STUCCO HOUSE. By H. DE Vere Stacpoole. By Gilbert Cannan. 13. THE BEACON. 56. ANN VERONICA. By Eden Phillpotts. By H. G. Wells 14. A MAN OF THE MOORS. 57. PINK ROSES. By Halliwell Sutcliffe. By Gilbert Cannan. as. THE POOLS OF SILENCE. 58. MADELINE OFTHE DESERT. By H. DE Vere Stacpoole. Bv Arthur Weigall a6. THE LONE ADVENTURE. 59. THE ARROW OF GOLD. Bv Halliwell Sutcliffe. Bv Joseph Conrad. a7. THE LOVE STONE. 60. DWELLER IN THE DESERT. By Alice aod Ci.auj>f Askew. By Arthur Weigall, 28. SAINTS IN SOCIETY. 61. BLIND ALLEY. By Margaret Baillie-Saunders. by W. L. George. 39- THE GREY MAN. 62. LOVERS AND FRIENDS. By S. R. Crockett By E. F. Benson. 30. FANNY LAMBERT. 63. ALASKA MANS LUCK. By H. DE Verb Stacpoole. By Hjalmar Rutzebece. 31. UNCANNY TALES. 64. THE ASHES OF ACHIEVE- By F. Marion Crawford. MENT. By Frank Russell. Sa. HUGH WYNNE. 65 BEDOUIN LOVE. iw S. Weir Mitchell. By Arthur Weigall. 33. ALMAYER S FOLLY. 60. MGLUSKY. By A. G. Hales. By Joseph Conrad. LONDON: T. FISHER UNWIN. LTD. 1 • - • • INSCRIBED TO DEREK VAN ULSEN, ESQ. First EdiHon . 1908 Second Impression . 1908 Third Impression . 1908 Fourth Impression . 1908 Fifth Impression 1908 Sixth Impression 1908 Seventh Impression . 1909 Eighth Impression . 1909 Ninth Impression 1909 Tenth Impression 1909 Eleventh Impression . 1909 Twelfth Impression . 1909 Thirteenth Impression 1910 Fourteenth Impression igii Fifteenth Impression . 1911 Sixteenth Impression 1913 Seventeenth Impression 1915 Eighteenth Impression 191S Nineteenth Impression 1917 Twentieth Impression 1917 Twenty-first Impression 1920 Twenty-second Impression . 1920 Twenty-third Impression . I9» Twenty-fourth Impression (as. 6d. net) 192 Twenty-fifth Impression 1921 Twenty-sixth Impression 1922 Twenty-seventh Impression . {3S. nef) 1923 Twenty-eighth Impression . 1923 {All rights reset ved.) ^'tCiili CONTENTS BOOK I PART I I. WHERE THE SLUSH LAMP BURNS I II. UNDEK THE STARS 7 in. THE SHADOW AND THE FIRE 17 IV. AND LIKE A DREAM DISSOLVED . 23 V. VOICES HEARD IN THE MIST 31 VI. DAWN ON A WIDE, WIDE SEA 38 VII. STORY OF THE PIG AND THE BILLY-GOAT 50 " VIll. S-H-E-N-A-N-D-O-A-H " .... 5S IX. SHADOWS IN THE MOONLIGHT 66 X. THE TRAGEDY OF THE BOATS 75 PART II Xl. THE ISLAND . 80 Xn. THE LAKE OF AZURE . S6 XIII. DEATH VEILED WITH LICHEN 97 XIV. ECHOES OF FAIRY-LAND 104 XV. f AiR PICTURES IN THE BLUE XXI vii 589188 lU CONTENTS PART III XVI. THE POETRY OF LEARNING . XVII. THE devil's CASK . XVIIl. THE RAT HUNT XIX. STARLIGHT ON THE FOAM . M3 XX. THE DREAMER ON THE REEF 150 XXI. THE GARLAND OF FLOWERS . 158 XXII. ALONE 163 XXIII. THEY MOVE AV.'AY . 167 BOOK II PART I I. UNDER THE ARTU TREE 173 II. HALF CHILD— HALF SAVAGE 177 III. THE DEMON OF THE REEF ..... 186 IV. WHAT BEAUTY CONCEALED I91 V. THE SOUND OF A DRUM 1 99 VI. SAILS UPON THE SEA 205 VII. THE SCHOONER 2l6 Vin. LOVE STEPS IN 222 IX. THE SLEEP OF PARADISE i . • . 22S PART II X. AN ISLAND HONEYMOON ..... 230 XI. THE VANISHING OF EMMELINE . 234 XIL THE VANISHING OF EMMELINE {contirMtd) . 241 Xin. THB NEWCOMER 245 CONTENTS ix XIV. HANNAH ....,..•. 249 XV. THE LAGOON OF FIRE . , . • • 255 XVI. THE CYCLONE • . 260 XVII. THE STRICKEN WOODS 366 XVIII. A FALLEN IDOL 271 XIX. THE EXPEDITION 275 XX. THE KEEPER OF THE LAGOON • • . 284 XXI. THE HAND OF THE SEA 288 XXII. TOGETHER • • • 29^ BOOK III I. MAD LESTRANGE ...«••• 295 II, THE SECRET OF THE AZURE . • . • 299 III. CAPTAIN FOUNTAIN . « « • 1 . 304 « 31S IV. DUE SOUTH ••«•(• I BOOK I ; THE BLUE LAGOON BOOK I PART I CHAPTER I WHERE THE SLUSH LAMP BURNS Mr Button was seated on a sea-chest with a fiddle under his left ear. He was playing the "Shan van vaught," and accompanying the tune, punctuating it, with blows of his left heel on the fo'cs'le deck. " O the Frinch are in the bay, Says the Shan van vaught. ^^ He was dressed in dungaree trousers, a striped shirt, and a jacket baize—green in parts from the influence of sun and salt. A typical old shell-back, round-shouldered, hooked of finger a figure with strong hints of a crab about it. — 2 Trite; B^LUE LAGOON His fac^'wasf like a lAoon, seen red through tropical mists ; and as he played it wore an expression of strained attention as though the fiddle were telling him tales much more marvellous than the old bald statement about Bantry Bay. *' Left-handed Pat," was his fo'cs'le name ; not because he was left-handed, but simply because everything he did he did wrong—or nearly so. Reefing or furling, or handling a slush tub if a mistake was to be made, he made it. He was a Celt, and all the salt seas that had flowed between him and Connaught these forty years and more had not washed the Celtic element from his blood, nor the belief in fairies from his soul. The Celtic nature is a fast dye, and Mr Button's nature was such that though he had been shanghaied by Larry Marr in 'Frisco, though he had got drunk in most ports of the world, though he had sailed with Yankee captains and been man-handled by Yankee mates, he still carried his fairies about with him—they, and a very large stock of original innocence. Nearly over the musician's head swung a hammock from which hung a leg ; other hammocks hanging in the semi - gloom called up suggestions of lemurs and arboreal bats. The swinging kerosene lamp cast its —a: THE SLUSH LAMP BURNS 3 light forward, past the heel of the bowsprit to the knightheads, lighting here a naked foot hanging over the side of a bunk, here a face from which protruded a pipe, here 2 breast covered with dark mossy hair, hen an arm tattooed. It was in the days before double topsaii yards had reduced ships' crews, and the fo cs'le of the Northumberland had a full company a crowd of packet rats such as often is to be found on a Cape Horner "Dutchmen" Americans—men who were farm labourers and tending pigs in Ohio three months back, old seasoned sailors like Paddy Button— mixture of the best and the worst of the earth, such as you find nowhere else in so small a space as in a ship's fo'cs'le. The Northumberland had experienced a terrible rounding of the Horn. Bound from New Orleans to 'Frisco she had spent thirty days battling with head-winds and storms down there, where the seas are so vast that three waves may cover with their amplitude more than a mile of sea space ; thirty days she had passed off Cape Stiff, and just now, at the moment of this story, she was locked in a calm south of the line. Mr Button finished his tune with a sweep of the bow, and drew his right coat sleeve ; 4 THE BLUE LAGOON across his forehead.
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