In Great Waters: Four Stories

It was well that Mary came, that way, and told a clear story about it all. What Tess told--when she came flying into the house and caught my mother around the neck and put her p...

And All Souls Eve was the time of all times for doing it. The whole town is in commotion then. In the churches, when the Vespers of All Saints are finished, the Vespers of the D...

And so, as you may see, we men of the Suffolk and Norfolk coast need the stiff backbone that we have as our birthright for the sea-fighting that is our life-work; and it is not...

For answer, she hauled the sheet a little and brought the boat still closer into the wind--heading straight out into the lake. "I told you once that the _Nixie_ could sail into...

But good though the Major's stories were, Maltham found still more interesting the Major's daughter--who spoke but little, and who seemed to be quite lost at times in her own th...

Maltham came close to her and took her hand. "Don't you think that it would have counted for a good deal to _me_?" he asked. Then he dropped her hand quickly and moved away from...

What the Marken folk still speak of as "the great storm"--the worst storm of which there is record in the island's history--set in a good four-and-twenty hours before the Decemb...

It was a little disconcerting to the prophets of evil that the weeks and the months slipped away without any signs of the fulfilment of their prophecies. However keen may have b...

Old Jaap Visser was mad. Out there on the island of Marken, in the Zuyder Zee, he was the one madman, and a curiosity. The little boys--all born web-footed, and eager as soon as...

Five-and-twenty years ago--before the canal was thought of, and when the Duluth of the present, with its backing of twenty thousand miles of railway, was a dream just beginning...

While the words were coming out of his mouth--it all was in my head like a flash--I saw my way to settling with him, and to settling fair. He was crazy to want to try for it thr...