The Deep Sea's Toll

It was a howling gale outside, but howling gales were common things to Peter, and he did not see why this one need hinder his taking a little stroll along the docks. Something i...

“Imagine Tom O’Donnell, Peter, havin’ to stand on the quarter of his own vessel and take that from Dick Mason--imagine it, Peter, and from Dick Mason that, standing on deck and...

Peter spoke with some moderation while his head was outside and his voice within range of the astounded master of the _Superba_, but once inside, with only his trusted staff to...

That night they hung grimly on to the other anchor. In the morning the Skipper chewed it over. “We can’t lay here forever--that’s certain. We must try and get her out. I don’t l...

“Sure, boy--here y’are--an armful of plates. Cook on a fisherman’s the last job I’d want--you’re never done. And you’re right it was a bad business, cook. When you’ve seen ninet...

“‘Oh, I’ll drive her.’ I threw it back in his teeth that way, spat to looard, took a fresh hold of the wheel, and did drive her just to let him know he couldn’t scare me. Cripes...

“I lifted him up, and the two of us clung to the end of the bowsprit. He looked weak as water then, and I pitied him, and pitying him I pointed out what chance we had. ‘There’s...

“Ask him, Charlie,” said Wesley, “what kind of a man he holds himself that he’s afraid to make a harbor to-night?” Which Charlie did, in a tone that Wesley could never have achi...

That’s when it would be breezin’ up. Dory-mates were we, the same as you and me be now, lad. And he was a dory-mate. I had to fight almost to keep him from doin’ half my work as...

Gradually it came into his brain, even though the yet insufficient light revealed nothing of the boy’s face, that all was not quite natural. Once more a call, but no answer, not...

The _Fuller_, to lend a good color by and by to the story of the wreckage and rescue, had to have a leak. The leak had been provided for at the same time that the cables were ch...

It turned out as Crump had predicted in the morning--still heavier weather for that afternoon and night. Just when Sam was demonstrating with a long pole that there was at least...

This was a case of sudden storm and everybody aware that it was to be a wild night; but such fishing as they had been having that day was too tempting to leave. Certainly aboard...

He looked over an envelopeful that the salesman emptied on to the glass case. “But I don’t want any red or yellow or fancy colors--a good white one I want. Now here’s one. A hun...

And what was it his soul was wrestling with? What would any man’s soul be wrestling with if he saw whereby a rival might be disposed of for good and for all? Especially when tha...