71
X. Jim the Bully 78
XI. A Glorious Prospect 86
XII. The Stolen Traps 94
XIII. Joe's Shotgun Secures a Supper 102
XIV. The Lonely Vigil of the Coast Patrol 110
XV. The Power of Music 117
XVI. Darry Meets with a Rebuff 124
XVII. Abner Tells a Little History 132
XVIII. The Imprisoned Launch 139
XIX. The Part of an Elder Brother 146
XX. Bad Luck and Good 154
XXI. Satisfying the Mortgage 162
XXII. Abner Hears the News 171
XXIII. Darry in the Lifeboat 179
XXIV. The Awakening 191
XXV. Conclusion 202

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DARRY, THE LIFE SAVER

CHAPTER I

THE HURRICANE

"Will we ever weather this terrible storm?"

It was a half-grown lad who flung this despairing question out; the wind
carried the sound of his voice off over the billows; but there came no
answer.

A brigantine, battered by the tropical hurricane sweeping up from the
Caribbean Sea, was staggering along like a wounded beast. Her masts had
long since gone by the board, and upon the stump of the mizzen-stick a
bit of canvas like a goose-wing had been spread in the useless endeavor
to maintain steerageway.

All around, the sea rose and fell in mountainous waves, on which the
poor wreck tossed about, as helpless as a cork.

Though the lad, lashed to some of the rigging that still clung to the
temporary jury mast, strained his eyes to the utmost, he could see
nothing but the waste of waves, the uplifting tops of which curled over,
and were snatched away in flying spud by the furious wind.

Darry was the cabin boy of the _Falcon_, having sailed with Captain
Harley now for several years. The old navigator had run across him in a
foreign port, and under most peculiar conditions.

Hearing a boyish voice that somehow struck his fancy, raised in angry
protest, followed by the crack of a whip, and much loud laughing, the
skipper of the brigantine had pushed into a cafe in Na