- Augie has gotten new teeth for the wedding.
- Pictures are taken of the wedding party.
- Sylvester, Robey, and Frazer are there to represent Augie's side.
- Frazer makes impressive conversation at the reception.
- Augie and Stella go the bridal bed.
- They get two days of honeymoon.
- Augie ships out from Boston.
- Stella will be going to Alaska.
- She leaves on a train.
- He boards the old ship, the Sam MacManus.
- It sails south.
- Augie investigates his office and duties. He's a druggist and bookkeeper.
- In his privacy he reads.
- That's our Augie March!
- Word gets around the ship that Augie is a good listener to hard luck stories.
- He hears many of these.
- On the fifteenth day out, the ship is taken down by a torpedo.
- Augie finds himself under water.
- He surfaces, sees a boat in the distance, and swims toward it.
- It's empty. He helps another survivor into it, then waits for a hand up.
- It doesn't come.
- He climbs in and smacks the man he helped who wouldn't help him in return.
- Augie scrounges supplies, but finds no other survivors.
- Basteshaw is the other man with him.
- He seems untroubled by their predicament.
- After listening to him talk, Augie doesn't find him very sympathetic. He talks of family members without implying much care for them.
- Augie gets the sense that this is a man who would just let him die just as soon as help him live.
- But Augie is also reminded of Einhorn sitting down, lecturing him about strength.
- They talk of art and the perishable quality of beauty.
- What else, right?
- Apparently the man has been canned by six universities for having strange ideas. He enlisted to keep up his scientific work at sea.
- He tells Augie about his theories, his investigations into boredom. He claims to have created new life.
- Augie is aghast that there was, allegedly, a protoplasm on board the sunken ship.
- He curses scientists who might someday destroy the world.
- Basteshaw is quiet for a few days.
- Augie dreams of a panhandler.
- The next day, Augie thinks he sees a ship, but Basteshaw tries to dissuade him, as if he doesn't want to be rescued.
- He tries to get Augie to join him in his research.
- Augie tries to make a signal, but Basteshaw attacks him and binds him.
- At night Augie frees himself. He's going to attack his enemy, but he finds him feverish and cares for him instead.
- They're saved by a British tanker.
- Six months later, Augie returns to New York and to Stella.