Third on them. Lucy, my
dear, let us drink your health."

Lucy drew him aside for a minute or two ere she complied with his
request, and with sparkling eyes she talked earnestly to him.

"Of course I will, dear," he said.

"Now, hoys," he cried, as Lucy brought out two bottles of brandy, and
some cups and glasses, "let us drink my wife's health. She has brought
us good luck. And she and I are dividing a thousand pounds between you,
with an extra fifty for Manuel; for I'm pretty well certain that the
Home Government can't claim any royalty."

The rough wreckers cheered and cheered again, as they drank to "Mrs.
Lester's Luck." They were all being paid high wages, and were worth
them, for they had toiled manfully, and the most pleasant relations had
always existed between them and Lester.

Immediately after breakfast on the following morning the anchors of the
_Harvest Queen_ were weighed to the raising chanty of--

"Hurrah, my boys, we're Homeward Bound!" and then the _Dolphin_, with
Lester on the bridge and Lucy beside him at the telegraph, went ahead,
and tautened out the tow line, and Lindley made all sail on his stumpy
jury masts.

Seventeen days later, the gallant little tug pulled the _Harvest Queen_
into Sydney Harbour. "Mrs. Lester's Luck," had been with them the whole
voyage, for from the time they had left Kent's Group, till they passed
between Sydney Heads, nothing but fine weather and favourable winds had
been experienced.

As the _Dolphin_, with the hulking _Harvest Queen_ behind her, came up
the smooth waters of the harbour to an anchorage off Garden Island, big
Bailey, who was standing beside Lester and Lucy on the bridge, uttered a
yell of delight.

"Mrs. Lester's luck again, by all that's holy! There is the _Braybrook
Castle_ at anchor over in Neutral Bay!"

It was indeed the _Braybrook Castle_, which had arrived only one day
previously, and when Lester went on shore a few hours later, he found
that he was a richer man by over L17,000 than when he had left Sydney
less than six months before.

And "Mrs. Lester's Luck" brought happiness to many other people beside
herself and her husband in the city of the Southern Sea, and when a year
later, in England, she stood on a stage under the bows of a gallant ship
of two thousand tons, built to Lester's order, and broke a bottle of
Australian wine against her steel plates, she named her "The Lucy's
Luck!"

BULL-DOGS OF THE SEA

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