CONTENTS
CHAPTER I -- IN WHICH KEZIAH HEARS TWO PROPOSALS AND THE BEGINNING OF A THIRD
CHAPTER II -- IN WHICH KEZIAH UNEARTHS A PROWLER
CHAPTER III -- IN WHICH KEZIAH ASSUMES A GUARDIANSHIP
CHAPTER IV -- IN WHICH KEZIAH'S PARSON DECIDES TO RUN IT BLINDFOLD
CHAPTER V -- IN WHICH THE PARSON CRUISES IN STRANGE WATERS
CHAPTER VI -- IN WHICH OLD FRIENDS MEET
CHAPTER VII -- IN WHICH CAPTAIN NAT PICKS UP A DERELICT
CHAPTER VIII -- IN WHICH THE PARSON AND MR. PEPPER DECLARE THEIR INDEPENDENCE
CHAPTER IX -- IN WHICH MISS DANIELS DETERMINES TO FIND OUT
CHAPTER X -- IN WHICH KEZIAH'S TROUBLES MULTIPLY
CHAPTER XI -- IN WHICH CAPTAIN EBEN RECEIVES A CALLER
CHAPTER XII -- IN WHICH CAPTAIN EBEN MAKES PORT
CHAPTER XIII -- IN WHICH KEZIAH BREAKS THE NEWS
CHAPTER XIV -- IN WHICH THE SEA MIST SAILS
CHAPTER XV -- IN WHICH TRUMET TALKS OF CAPTAIN NAT
CHAPTER XVI -- IN WHICH THE MINISTER BOARDS THE SAN JOSE
CHAPTER XVII -- IN WHICH EBENEZER CAPEN IS SURPRISED
CHAPTER XVIII -- IN WHICH KEZIAH DECIDES TO FIGHT
CHAPTER XIX -- IN WHICH A RECEPTION IS CALLED OFF
CHAPTER XX -- IN WHICH THE MINISTER RECEIVES A LETTER
CHAPTER XXI -- IN WHICH MR. STONE WASHES HIS HANDS
CHAPTER XXII -- IN WHICH KEZIAH'S PARSON PREACHES ONCE MORE
Trumet in a fog; a fog blown in during the night by the wind from the wide Atlantic. So wet and heavy that one might taste the salt in it. So thick that houses along the main road were but dim shapes behind its gray drapery, and only the gates and fences of the front yards were plainly in evidence to the passers-by. The beach plum and bayberry bushes on the dunes were spangled with beady drops. The pole on Cannon Hill, where the beacon was hoisted when the packet from Boston dropped anchor in the bay, was shiny and slippery. The new weatherv