The Pillar of Light

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Tracy Louis. The Pillar of Light

CHAPTER I. FLOTSAM

CHAPTER II. A CHRISTENING

CHAPTER III. THE SIGNAL

CHAPTER IV. THE VOICE OF THE REEF

CHAPTER V. THE HURRICANE

CHAPTER VI. THE MIDDLE WATCH

CHAPTER VII. THE LOTTERY

CHAPTER VIII. AN INTERLUDE

CHAPTER IX. MRS. VANSITTART

CHAPTER X. PYNE'S PROGRESS

CHAPTER XI. MRS. VANSITTART'S FEAR

CHAPTER XII. PREPARATIONS

CHAPTER XIII. BEFORE THE DAWN

CHAPTER XIV. THE WAY THEY HAVE IN THE NAVY

CHAPTER XV. ENID'S NEW NAME

CHAPTER XVI. STEPHEN BRAND EXPLAINS

CHAPTER XVII. MRS. VANSITTART GOES HOME

CHAPTER XVIII. ENID WEARS AN OLD ORNAMENT

CHAPTER XIX. THE HOUSE THAT STOOD UPON A ROCK

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Brand was slow to answer. For one thing, he was exhausted. Refreshing as the long swim was after a night of lonely vigil, itself the culmination of two days of hard work, the fierce battle with the shark had shocked into active existence the reserve of latent energy which every healthy animal unconsciously hoards for life-and-death emergencies.

But there was another reason. He had scarce gained the comparative safety of the boat before he was, in the same instant, horrified and astounded to a degree hitherto beyond his experience. Not even the stiff pull of two hundred yards sufficed to restore his senses. So Jim's question fell on his ears with the meaningless sound of the steamer's siren.

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In private, they discussed him often, and a common agreement was made that his wish to remain incognito should be respected. Their nickname, "the cap'n," was a tacit admission of his higher social rank. They feared lest inquisitiveness should drive him from their midst, and one supernumerary, who heard from the cook of the Trinity tender that Brand was the nephew of a baronet, was roughly bidden to "close his rat-trap, or he might catch something he couldn't eat."

So Jim now contented himself by remarking dolefully that had his advice been taken "the bloomin' kid would be well on her way back to the Scilly Isles."

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