The Wings of the Morning

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Louis Tracy. The Wings of the Morning

The Wings of the Morning

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

THE WRECK OF THE SIRDAR

CHAPTER II

THE SURVIVORS

CHAPTER III

DISCOVERIES

CHAPTER IV

RAINBOW ISLAND

CHAPTER V

IRIS TO THE RESCUE

CHAPTER VI

SOME EXPLANATIONS

CHAPTER VII

SURPRISES

CHAPTER VIII

PREPARATIONS

CHAPTER IX

THE SECRET OF THE CAVE

CHAPTER X

REALITY V. ROMANCE—THE CASE FOR THE PLAINTIFF

CHAPTER XI

THE FIGHT

CHAPTER XII

A TRUCE

CHAPTER XIII

REALITY V. ROMANCE—THE CASE FOR THE DEFENDANT

CHAPTER XIV

THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS

CHAPTER XV

THE DIFFICULTY OF PLEASING EVERYBODY

CHAPTER XVI

BARGAINS, GREAT AND SMALL

CHAPTER XVII

RAINBOW ISLAND AGAIN—AND AFTERWARD

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Louis Tracy

Published by Good Press, 2019

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There was an awful race by the engines before the engineers could shut off steam. The junk vanished into the wilderness of noise and tumbling seas beyond, and the fine steamer of a few seconds ago, replete with magnificent energy, struggled like a wounded leviathan in the grasp of a vengeful foe.

She swung round, as if in wrath, to pursue the puny assailant which had dealt her this mortal stroke. No longer breasting the storm with stubborn persistency, she now drifted aimlessly before wind and wave. She was merely a larger plaything, tossed about by Titantic gambols. The junk was burst asunder by the collision. Her planks and cargo littered the waves, were even tossed in derision on to the decks of the Sirdar. Of what avail was strong timber or bolted iron against the spleen of the unchained and formless monster who loudly proclaimed his triumph? The great steamship drifted on through chaos. The typhoon had broken the lance.

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