The Mutiny of the Elsinore

The Mutiny of the Elsinore, by Jack London
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Title: The Mutiny of the Elsinore Author: Jack London
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Transcribed from the 1915 Mills and Boon edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org; proofed by Rab Hughes.
THE MUTINY OF THE ELSINORE
BY
JACK LONDON MILLS & BOON, LIMITED 49 RUPERT STREET LONDON, W.
Published 1915 Copyright in the United States of America by JACK LONDON
CHAPTER I
From the first the voyage was going wrong. Routed out of my hotel on a bitter March morning, I had crossed Baltimore and reached the pier-end precisely on time. At nine o’clock the tug was to have taken me down the bay and put me on board the Elsinore, and with growing irritation I sat frozen inside my taxicab and waited. On the seat, outside, the driver and Wada sat hunched in a temperature perhaps half a degree colder than mine. And there was no tug. Possum, the fox-terrier puppy Galbraith had so inconsiderately foisted upon me, whimpered and shivered on my lap inside my greatcoat ...