CHAPTER VI WHAT WAS IT? Sumner Dalton was a supremely selfish man. From his earliest boyhood, his chief aim had been to get gold, no...

CHAPTER V “I SHALL KEEP MY PLEDGE” Richard Forrester’s affairs were duly settled, and his property—an exceedingly handsome property,...

CHAPTER IV THE GREAT UNKNOWN A year went by. To Editha Dalton, it seemed to fly as if with magic wings, for she was yet a school-girl,...

CHAPTER III A FRIEND IN NEED “I did not do it. I have not that on my conscience to weigh me down. I am to suffer for another’s crime, and...

CHAPTER II THE ROBBERY About three months previous to the events related in the preceding chapter, on a dark and stormy night, two men...

CHAPTER XLI CONCLUSION Will stared curiously at his brother as he pronounced the mystical word “ambergris.” “I won’t keep you in the dark...

CHAPTER XL ALAN’S FORTUNE It was a happy family party that gathered around the humble fireside of Solomon Bertram the day following the...

CHAPTER XXXIX THE PRISONERS For several minutes Will Bertram was kept busy answering his brother’s rapid questions. He told Alan of all...

CHAPTER XXXVIII ON THE YACHT Will’s first impulse as he regained his freedom was to fly instantly from the boat, which an enforced...

CHAPTER XXXVII WILL’S ESCAPE Will Bertram, locked in the cabin apartment, could only imagine what was going on outside from the movements...

CHAPTER XXXVI AT PORTLAND When Jack Marcy saw Will Bertram’s face at the window in the boat he instantly comprehended, as he had said,...

CHAPTER XXXV THE RESCUED CASTAWAYS While Will Bertram was passing through strange and varied adventures the friends he had left behind...

CHAPTER XXXIV IMPRISONED “When the Golden Moose sunk in mid-ocean,” were Captain Morris’ first words, “I believed that Jack Marcy, the...

CHAPTER XXXIII ON THE YACHT For fully two minutes there was a lapse of dead silence, broken only by the commotion in the outside bar...

CHAPTER XXXII NEW PERILS The street was dark and deserted except where the two persons so strangely met stood staring at each other....

CHAPTER XXXI A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE “Our fortune?” repeated Will, in vague wonderment. “Yes, Will,” replied Alan, looking around to see...

CHAPTER XXX CAPTAIN ALAN BERTRAM It was Alan Bertram, his long-lost brother, bronzed and bearded and changed, but the same kindly eyes...

CHAPTER XXIX FOUND AT LAST That the Eskimo were enraged, and believing that their companion had been murdered, were determined to avenge...

CHAPTER XXVIII THE ATTACK “Hurrah!” Amid the excitement of a most momentous episode in the Arctic experience of the young castaways, this...

CHAPTER XXVII THE SNOWSTORM The longer the intensely absorbed and excited Jack and the boys gazed at the distant object that had...