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SONNIE-BOY'S PEOPLE

SONNIE-BOY'S PEOPLE

BY JAMES B. CONNOLLY

ILLUSTRATED

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK :::::::::::::::::::::: 1913

COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published September, 1913

CONTENTS

PAGE

SONNIE-BOY'S PEOPLE 1

TIM RILEY'S TOUCH 51

IN THE ANCHOR WATCH 95

CROSS COURSES 123

LEARY OF THE "LIGONIER" 167

HOW THEY GOT THE "HATTIE RENNISH" 199

KILLORIN'S CARIBBEAN DAYS 231

THE BATTLE-CRUISE OF THE "SVEND FOYN" 261

THE LAST PASSENGER 285

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Look here, Sonnie-Boy. Here's a man says your papa is the greatest man ever was in his line" Frontispiece

FACING PAGE

"And of course your brother is laying great plans to assure his future?" 6

"That two-faced chairman of yours--he never tipped me off you could fight any way except with your hands." 90

The Orion proved to us that she was faster off the wind than we were by rounding Cape Cod before us. 156

It was Drislane she had, his head cuddled on her knees till the tug came and got us. 164

"Just then one came right under her forefoot and another under her counter. And I looks back to the gunboat." 226

The strangers out with revolvers, back my men into the fo'c's'le, and lock them in. 268