(Printed In the United States of America)
*CONTENTS*
I. Lost, Strayed, or Stolen?
II. An Uninvited Guest
III. Professor Quinn's Feat
IV. The Plutocrats Reconciled
V. Traveling Sunward
VI. A Landing Effected
VII. Facing a Mercurial Storm
VIII. The Mercurials
IX. Learning the Word-Box
X. How We were Catalogued
XI. The Dilemma of Mr. Meigs
XII. Condemned to Death
XIII. A Threatening Calamity
XIV. Plan to Steal a Building
XV. Surveying our own Planet
XVI. How Ill-Luck Overtook Me
XVII. A Change of Heart
XVIII. How We Outwitted the King
XIX. Back to Earth
*ADRIFT IN THE UNKNOWN.*
*CHAPTER I.*
*LOST, STRAYED, OR STOLEN?*
There could be no more fitting introduction to this most amazing
narrative from the pen of James Peter Munn than that article in the
_Morning Mercury_.
Munn, it is no breach of confidence to inform the reader, was a reformed
burglar; although the author of two books which achieved large sales and
were most favorably received by the reviewers--"Forty Ways of Cracking
Safes" and "The Sandbagger's Manual"--Mr. Munn developed small skill
with the pen, so that the breathless interest aroused by his revelations
hangs more upon the matter than the style. The _Mercury_ article should
do its mite toward preparing the reader for what is to come.