The Saint
of
The Speedway
by
Ridgwell Cullum
McClelland and Stewart
Publishers : : Toronto
Copyright, 1924,
By George H. Doran Company
The Saint of the Speedway
—B—
Printed in the United States of America
Foreword
If the reader will cast a thought back to the classic sea mystery of the Marie Celeste, it will be clear how much this book owes its inception to the extraordinary derelict, the mystery of which remains unsolved to this day. But the author disclaims any attempt in the following pages to offer a solution of the mystery and has only used certain of the features surrounding the condition of the Marie Celeste at the time she was found abandoned in mid-ocean for the purposes of his story-narrative.
Contents
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | The Adventurers | 11 |
| II | The Headland | 23 |
| III | In Beacon Glory | 40 |
| IV | The Great Disaster | 55 |
| V | Eight Months Later—On the Lias River | 68 |
| VI | A Bunch of Humanity | 82 |
| VII | The Speedway | 94 |
| VIII | The Man from Lias River | 104 |
| IX | The Aurora Clan | 121 |
| X | The Haunt of the Clansmen | 134 |
| XI | The Wreck at the River Mouth | 142 |
| XII | The Limpet of Boston | 156 |
| XIII | The “Come-back” | 169 |
| XIV | In the Sunshine | 179 |
| XV | The Man from the Hills | 196 |
| XVI | The Lazaret | 209 |
| XVII | Links in a Chain | 225 |
| XVIII | McLagan Achieves an End | 243 |
| XIX | McLagan Returns from the Hills | 256 |
| XX | The Last of the Moving Shadow | 276 |
| XXI | Julian Caspar at Bay | 289 |
| XXII | The Quitting | 311 |
| XXIII | The Passing of the “Chief-Light” | 322 |