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                    A CRIME OF THE UNDER-SEAS

                         By GUY BOOTHBY

_Author of "A Bid for Fortune" "Doctor Nikola" "The Beautiful
White Devil" "Pharos, the Egyptian" etc. etc._

ILLUSTRATIONS BY STANLEY L. WOOD


    LONDON

    WARD LOCK & CO LIMITED
    1905




[Illustration: "Dropped him again with a cry that echoed in my helmet."]




CONTENTS


A CRIME OF THE UNDER-SEAS

THE PHANTOM STOCKMAN

THE TREASURE OF SACRAMENTO NICK

INTO THE OUTER DARKNESS

THE STORY OF TOMMY DODD AND "THE ROOSTER"

QUOD ERAT DEMONSTRANDUM

CUPID AND PSYCHE

MISPLACED AFFECTIONS

IN GREAT WATERS

MR. ARISTOCRAT

THIS MAN AND THIS WOMAN




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"DROPPED HIM AGAIN WITH A CRY THAT ECHOED IN MY HELMET."

"I SPRANG TO MY FEET ON HEARING THIS. 'NOT THE FIRST!' I CRIED."

"A NATIVE FRUIT-HAWKER CAME ROUND THE CORNER."

"THEN, JUST AS HER NOSE GROUNDED, MY EYES CAUGHT SIGHT OF A BIG
CREEPER-COVERED MASS."

"ONE MOONLIGHT NIGHT... SOMEBODY STEPPED UP BESIDE HIM."




A Crime of the Under-Seas




CHAPTER I


There is an old saying that "one half of the world does not know