The Dime Library, No. 1097

This June 1905 issue of a pulp magazine contains "The Rival Rovers: A Romance of Outlawry on Blue Waters" by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, presented as a companion to "The Red Rapier." The narrative opens during a violent Gulf of Mexico storm that wrecks the Mexican brig-of-war Rattlesnake. Captain Rudolph Revello, secretly a pirate known as the Red Rapier, discovers his cabin-boy is actually his estranged wife Lucille, seeking revenge. She reveals that years earlier Revello seduced her from Mobile Bay, abandoned her and their son on an island, and planned to marry a Mexican heiress. She infiltrated his crew, reported him to American authorities, and orchestrated a trap involving the American schooner Spiteful. Though a tornado prevented his capture and execution, the wreck now dooms them both. Revello vows his own revenge, declaring he will escape in a lifeboat while she perishes with the ship, intensifying the conflict as the vessel sinks.