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SEA-DOGS ALL!

A Tale of Forest and Sea

by

TOM BEVAN

Author of
  "Red Dickon the Outlaw,"
  "The Fen Robbers,"
  etc., etc.







[Frontispiece: Dolly stood near the fire, her face rosy with the heat]




Thomas Nelson and Sons
London, Edinburgh, Dublin, and New York
1911




CONTENTS.


       I. The Man in Black
      II. The Plotters
     III. Two Friends
      IV. Johnnie Morgan takes a Walk
       V. Master Windybank
      VI. A Sinister Meeting
     VII. In the Toils
    VIII. Master Windybank walks abroad
      IX. The Hunt
       X. Master Windybank rebels
      XI. Darkness and the River
     XII. Snaring a Flock of Night Ravens
    XIII. A Double Fight
     XIV. What happened in Westbury Steeple
      XV. A Letter from Court
     XVI. To London Town
    XVII. Sir Walter as Chaperon
   XVIII. Three Broken Mariners
     XIX. Paignton Rob's Story
      XX. Rob dines at "Ye Swanne"
     XXI. Morgan goes to Whitehall
    XXII. The Queen
   XXIII. Johnnie sees many Sights
    XXIV. Two Chance Wayfarers
     XXV. Brother Basil
    XXVI. All on a bright March Morning
   XXVII. In Plymouth
  XXVIII. The Parlour of the "Blue Dolphin"
    XXIX. The Widow's House
     XXX. Ho! for the Spanish Main
    XXXI. In the Bay of San Joseph
   XXXII. A Glimpse of the Fabled City
  XXXIII. Wandering in a Maze
   XXXIV. Flood and Fever
    XXXV. A Foe
   XXXVI. The Attack on the Village
  XXXVII. Council Fires in Two Places
 XXXVIII. The Way back
   XXXIX. John Oxenham's Creek
      XL. A Haven of Peace
     XLI. The Trap
    XLII. Captives
   XLIII. In Panama
    XLIV. The Trial
     XLV. For Faith and Country!
    XLVI. The Galley Slaves
   XLVII. Hernando speaks
  XLVIII. The Revolt of the Slaves
    XLIX. Eastward Ho!
       L. Home
      LI. The Forest again--and the Sea




List of Illustrations


Cover art

Dolly stood near the fire, her face rosy with the heat.. _Frontispiece_

The odds were hopelessly against him.




SEA-DOGS ALL!


Chapter I.

THE MAN IN BLACK.

The river-path along the Severn shore at Gatcombe was almost knee-deep
with turbid water, and only a post here and there showed where river
ordinarily ended and firm land began.  Fishers and foresters stood in
the pelting rain and buffeting