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                        THE WHITE BLACKBIRD

                         BY HUDSON DOUGLAS

    AUTHOR OF "A MILLION A MINUTE," "THE LANTERN OF LUCK," ETC

                  WITH ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR BY

                          HERMAN PFEIFER


    BOSTON
    LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
    1912

    _Copyright, 1912_,
    BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

    _All rights reserved, including those of translation into
    foreign languages, including the Scandinavian_

    Published, September, 1912

    THE COLONIAL PRESS
    C. H. SIMONDS & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.


           FOR
      ISOBEL MY WIFE
           AND
    OUR DAUGHTER ISOBEL




[Illustration: "Feel my pulse now, before you go," the pseudo-doctor's
patient commanded.]




CONTENTS


    CHAPTER                                 PAGE

    I. A TROPICAL DISCUSSION                  1

    II. "DUTCH COURAGE"                      11

    III. EL FARISH                           18

    IV. THE MASQUE OF DEATH                  28

    V. AFLOAT AND ASHORE                     38

    VI. HOBSON'S CHOICE                      51

    VII. THE WHITE BLACKBIRD                 64

    VIII. UNMASKED                           80

    IX. AN OVERDRAFT ON THE FUTURE           91

    X. THE GODDESS OF CHANCE                107

    XI. A FOOL AND HIS FORT