The Wrecking Master

It was not until a fortnight after Dan Frazier had been taken home to Key West that he was allowed to leave his room and lounge in a wicker chair on the cottage porch. His face...

The first pull on the stranded steamer had been halted by the tragedy of Jeremiah Pringle's heroic death. As soon as possible Captain Jim Wetherly hastened back from Key West to...

As the _Resolute_ steamed into Key West harbor, Dan Frazier was on the lookout for his friend Barton Pringle who almost always ran down to the wharf when the whistle of Captain...

Nobody was more dumfounded by the ramming of the tug _Henry Foster_ than Captain Bruce of the steamer aground on the Reef. In a twinkling his wicked partnership with Jeremiah Pr...

Chief Engineer Bill McKnight hoisted himself up the iron ladder that led from the fire-room of the _Resolute_ and tottered on deck gasping for breath. He was begrimed from head...

The battered _Kenilworth_ lay heeled far over to one side, looming forlornly from the Reef in the midst of a smooth and sparkling sea. Her sides were gray with brine and streake...

Dan Frazier came to himself with the message from the ventilator pipe surging in his confused brain. The Bahama wreckers were going to blow up the ship. "A ten-minute fuse," he...

"A thick night and no mistake, Dan. It's as black as the face of a Nassau pilot. We ought to be nearing the coal wharf by now. Of course they wouldn't have sense enough to leave...

Imprisoned as he was in the hold of the _Kenilworth_, and feeling sure that the steamer was to be abandoned by her crew as a hopeless wreck, Dan Frazier became almost stupefied...

In his cooler moments Captain Wetherly might not have ordered Dan Frazier to board the stranded _Kenilworth_ before daylight, for a heavy sea was running along the Reef. But he...