48
VI. The Man on the Mail Boat 57
VII. The Woman from Wolf Cove 70
VIII. The Blind and the Blind 79
IX. A Wreck on the Thirty Devils 89
X. The Flight 102
XI. The Women at the Gate 110
XII. Doctor and I 115
XIII. A Smiling Face 125
XIV. In the Watches of the Night 133
XV. The Wolf 138
XVI. A Malady of the Heart 150
XVII. Hard Practice 167
XVIII. Skipper Tommy Gets a Letter 182
XIX. The Fate of the Mail-Boat Doctor 191
XX. Christmas Eve at Topmast Tickle 202
XXI. Down North 219
XXII. The Way from Heart's Delight 222
XXIII. The Course of True Love 239
XXIV. The Beginning of the End 258
XXV. A Capital Crime 265
XXVI. Decoyed 287
XXVII. The Day of the Dog 305
XXVIII. In Harbour 320

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[Illustration: SKETCH MAP of OUR HARBOR]

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DOCTOR LUKE of THE LABRADOR

I

OUR HARBOUR

A cluster of islands, lying off the cape, made the shelter of our
harbour. They were but great rocks, gray, ragged, wet with fog and surf,
rising bleak and barren out of a sea that forever fretted a thousand
miles of rocky coast as barren and as sombre and as desolate as they;
but they broke wave and wind unfailingly and with vast unconcern--they
were of old time, mighty, steadfast, remote from the rage of weather and
the changing mood of the sea, surely providing safe shelter for us folk
of the coast--and we loved them, as true men, everywhere, love home.

"'Tis the cleverest harbour