Darry the Life Saver; Or, The Heroes of the Coast

weather this t

question out; the wind carried the sound of his vo

ng like a wounded beast. Her masts had long since gone by the board, and upon the stump of the mizzen-s

ountainous waves, on which the poor wr

, strained his eyes to the utmost, he could see nothing but the waste of waves, the uplif

ain Harley now for several years. The old navigator had run ac

gry protest, followed by the crack of a whip, and much loud laughi

n playing a violin for coppers, refusing to dance for a big brute

cover the violin the bully deliberate

in his arms, the brutal sailor had seized upon a carter's whip, and cracking it loudly, declared t

strode in and stood between the

doned some years before by an old man with whom he seemed to have been traveling, he offered to befriend

he believed he must be of American birth, and someh

ars had

antine, and since he had no knowledge as to what his name mi

f the world, and learned many things under

his ever learning his identity-only a slender link seemed to connect him with that mysterious past tha

moon, and had been there e

ht be the result of some accident that m

somewhere, would be apt to recognize thi

d him in the belief that some happy

though Darry need no longer allow him

as easy a resting place to a nam

h of water must have swept him away, only that he had been

someone joined him, also using the w

the captain; and with his thoughts still taken up with the peril of his sit

weather this s

ing for the elements. It looks as though the Falcon had reached the end of her voyaging at last. Twe

me necessary to shout at times, in order t

boy, anxiously; for he knew that su

storm has been so prolonged that I have lon

ways stand ready to risk everything in case a vessel is driven on the re

the bravest of men would find themselves

ll hope?" anxiously demanded Darry, trying to

e it is so, I wanted to have a few last words with you, and then I must return

ed out h

e, as the lightning flashed, he looke

ld ever feel the pressure of that friendly hand, and this tho

le, and that you shall reach the shore in safety after all. Should ill befall me I want you to write my old mother up in York State

we may both pull through!"

be a true man. And continue to search for some evidence of your people. That mark on your arm may be of great value to you some day. Hark! I fancied I

re of the hand, and C

ght a last glimpse of his guardian staggering across the

, but always must he remember that the las

s were well founded, and it was not long before he too could ca

there was hardly a place along the whole American coast more dangerous th

this Darry lashed himself, in the faint hope that

reast; for after all he was but a lad, and the strongest men mi

rigantine was smashed down upon the

r a plaything, rushing complet

there longer his time had surely come. It would be better to cut loose from the mast, and trust his fortunes upon the bre

d upon his sailor's knife and severed the

of the next comber with set

ds and it w

over the side of the vessel, and carried safely above the ree

t moment Darry thought he glimpsed a light somewhere ahead; and what the

to give the despair

sam from the wreck, which they must have sighted when the lightning fl