CONTENTS, III. Even Seeking to Realize It.. IV. Turning to the Sea, at Last, for Solace. V. I Overhaul the Steam Yacht, Billowcrest. VI. Where All Things Become Possible..... VII. I Learn the Way of the Sea, and Enter More Fully Into VIII. The Halcyon Way to the South. IX. Admonition and Counsel..... X. Captain Biffer is Assisted by the Pampeiro... XII. Where Captain Biffer Revises Some Opinions... XIII. In the “ Fighting-Top"...... XIV. An Excursion and an Experiment.. XV, As Reported by My Note-Book. XVI. Following the Pacemaker.. XVII. Investigation and Discovery.. XVIII. A “Borning" and a Mystery... XXI. An Arrival and a Departure.... XXIII. The Cloudcrest Makes a Landing.. XXVI. The Welcome to the Unknown.... XXVII. The Prince of the Purple Fields... XXX. The Lady of the Lilies... XXXI. The Pole at Last. XXXII. An Offering to the Sun.. XXXIII. The Touch of Life.. XXXIV. The Pardon of Love.. XXXV. Down the River of Coming Dark .. XXXVI. The “ Passage of the Dead”.. XXXVII. The Rising Tide. XXXVIII. Storm and Stress. XXXIX. Where Dreams Become Real. XL. Claiming the Reward.. 243 249 253 264 269 279 290 293 301 305 315 322 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS “The South Pole for us all!" (page 58) Frontispiece “Then, somebody was clinging to me" Page 93 “ From our high vantage we could command a vast circle of sunless, melancholy cold" “ 117 “Cut her, Nick, cut her! I can't stick on any longer!”. " 202 THE PALACE OF THE PRINCE "A harbor for vanished argosies and forgot ten dreams" " 242 The Pardon OF LOVE “There fell upon them a long golden bar of the returning sunlight' 1 288 OF THE GREAT WHITE WAY. . NICHOLAS CHASE, a young man with a dream of dis covery, and an inherited love of the sea. CHAUNCEY GALE, a merry millionaire, with a willingness to back his judgment. EDITH GALE, his daughter, a girl with accomplishments and ideas. ZAR, colored maid and former nurse of Edith Gale. A woman with no “ fool notions" about the South Pole. FERRATONI, an Italian electrician with wireless commu nication, and subtle psychic theories. CAPTAIN JOSEPH BIFFER, Master of the Billowcrest. An old salt, with little respect for wild expeditions. TERENCE LARKINS, First Officer of the Billowcrest, with a disregard of facts. MR. EMORY, Second Officer of the Billowcrest. WILLIAM STURRITT, Steward of the Billowcrest, and in ventor of condensed food tablets. FRENCHY, a bosen who stirs up trouble. PRINCE OF THE PURPLE FIELDS, a gentle despot of the Port of Dreams. PRINCESS OF THE LILIED HILLS, His Serene Sister, whose domain is the deepest South. Three maidens of the Land of Dreams and Lotus. A shipwrecked sailor, whose rescue is important to all concerned. Cabin boy, stewardess, and crew of the Billowcrest. Courtiers, populace, etc., of the Land of the Sloping Sun. |