HELL'S HATCHES
NEW FICTION
THE CURTAIN
By Alexander Macfarlan
THE SYRENS
By Dot Allan
OLD MAN'S YOUTH
By William de Morgan
THE PURPLE HEIGHTS
By M. C. Oemler
HAGAR'S HOARD
By George Kibbe Turner
THE VILLA OF THE PEACOCK
By Richard Dehan
IN CHANCERY
By John Galsworthy
SNOW OVER ELDEN
By Thomas Moult
EUDOCIA
By Eden Phillpotts
By Alexander Macfarlan
THE SYRENS
By Dot Allan
OLD MAN'S YOUTH
By William de Morgan
THE PURPLE HEIGHTS
By M. C. Oemler
HAGAR'S HOARD
By George Kibbe Turner
THE VILLA OF THE PEACOCK
By Richard Dehan
IN CHANCERY
By John Galsworthy
SNOW OVER ELDEN
By Thomas Moult
EUDOCIA
By Eden Phillpotts
LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN
21, Bedford Street, W.C. 2
![HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of "In the Tracks of the Trades," etc. [Illustration: 1921] LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN](https://oldbook.b-cdn.net/kitaplar/5/pg44632-h/images/illo_003.jpg "HELL'S HATCHES BY LEWIS R. FREEMAN Author of \"In the Tracks of the Trades,\" etc. [Illustration: 1921] LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN")
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I A Reputation Questioned 1
II Hard-Bit Derelicts 10
III The Girl Herself 25
IV "Slant" Allen Retires Again 38
V A Ship of Death 50
VI Compulsory Volunteering 65
VII Rona Comes Aboard 80
VIII I Leave the Island 93
IX A Grim Tale of the Sea 106
X Art and Suspense 124
XI A Hero's Homecoming 142
XII A Bad Man's Plea 180
XIII The Scene of the Final Drama 193
XIV Hell's Hatches Off 206
XV The Face 220
XVI A Sudden Visitor 231
XVII Down the Flume 255
XVIII ...