Jack Straw, Lighthouse Builder

For some time following their adventure with Warden Williams’ lobster patrol and their subsequent chase by the _Fish Hawk_, Ray and Jack were kept rather busy about the construc...

As soon as the trio began their tour of inspection of the construction camp Jack’s curiosity about the big blocks of granite that looked like sections of a jig-saw puzzle was re...

Jack awoke with a start. He knew instinctively that some one had been gazing at him while he slept and his feeling was that of impending trouble. He sat up quickly and turned to...

With the completion of the aerial cableway and the clearing of the surface of the rock the Hood Island construction camp became a very busy place. A score or more of men were to...

With the setting of the sun a light mist formed and hung above the surface of the big crescent-shaped bay on which Austin’s Pool was located. The shadowy blanket was just heavy...

Of course Dr. Moorland was willing to excuse Jack for the remaining week of school. Indeed, after he had looked up the lad’s term record and examination marks in his little card...

There remained nothing for Jack and Ray to do but climb aboard. With the determined old fisherman standing there in the stern of the _Betsy Anne_, looking coldly along the barre...

This was enough to stir both lads, for they had set their hearts on taking part in the tussle with the waves to gain the top of Cobra Head. They were on their feet in a jiffy an...

That dinner was one of the best the lads had ever eaten, it seemed to them. Indeed, Jack forgot about the howling of the wind and the spattering of the rain outside, and Ray eve...

It was late afternoon when the _Blueflower_ came abreast of the southern end of the long heavily wooded island which was to be Jack’s home for several months and on which the li...

“By jiminy, old man, you certainly can swim,” exclaimed Jack as he reached the lad from the _Fish Hawk_. But the newcomer to Hood Island made no reply. Instead, he stood still a...

Jack Straw was walking slowly down the maple-lined avenue that led from the campus to Phillip’s Hall, the largest of the two dormitory buildings connected with Drueryville Acade...

For three days Beck, Duncan and Ray’s Uncle Vance were in a precarious state. The men had spent most of their energy in battling for their lives after the wreck of the _Fish Haw...