



Produced by Al Haines









[Frontispiece: "An' the bridal couple 'd be holdin' hands an' gazin'
over the spanker-boom at the full moon." [Page 242.]]




RUNNING FREE

BY

JAMES B. CONNOLLY



WITH ILLUSTRATIONS



CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

NEW YORK ::::::::::::::::::::: 1917




  COPYRIGHT, 1913, 1915, 1917, BY
  CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

  Published September, 1917

  COPYRIGHT, 1912, 1913, 1917, BY P. F. COLLIER & SON, INCORPORATED
  COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY




CONTENTS

The Strategists

The Weeping Annie

The Bull-Fight

A Bale of Blankets

Breath o' Dawn

Peter Stops Ashore

The Sea-Birds

The Medicine Ship

One Wireless Night

Dan Magee: White Hope




ILLUSTRATIONS

"An' the bridal couple'd be holdin' hands an' gazin' over the
spanker-boom at the full moon" Frontispiece

"All stand clear of the main entrance"

"It was drive, drive, drive, from midnight to daylight"

It took till the daylight was all but gone before I knocked him down
for the last time

"You doubted my courage, maybe?" I asked

"'Quiscanto vascamo mirajjar,' which is Yunzano for 'I am satisfied, I
can now die happy'"




The Strategists

I arrived in Santacruz in the early evening, and as I stepped out of
the carriage with the children the majordomo came rushing out from
under the hotel portales and said: "Meesus Trench, is