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Updated: May 4, 2025
"What sort o' foundations d'ye mean, boy?" "The light'ouse on the Eddystun," replied the child, with sparkling eyes. The man smiled, and looked at his son with interest. "That's a brave boy," he said, quietly patting the child's head. "Get 'ee into th'ouse, Tommy, an' I'll show 'ee the right way to lay the foundations o' the Eddystun after supper.
"My work at the docks has come to an end, an' Mr Winstanley has got all the men he requires for the repair of the light'ouse. I saw him just before he went off to the rock to-night, an' I offered to engage, but he said he didn't want me."
"A noo light'ouse!" exclaimed Mrs Potter, with sudden energy, bringing her fist down on the table with such force that the dishes rattled again. "I know'd it: I did. I've 'ad a settled conviction that if ever they begun to put up another 'ouse on that there rock, you would 'ave your finger in it!
"Well, well, my dear," returned Martha, with a solemn shake of the head, "there an't much difference atween lighted-up an' burnt-up. It's just as I always said to your father, my dear to your grandfather I mean depend upon it, John, I used to say, that light'ouse will either be burnt up or blowed over. Ay, ay, dear me!"
At that moment a bright star of the first magnitude rose on the horizon, right ahead of them. "Ha! dat is a star," said the Frenchman, after a few moments' observation of it. "Stars don't go out," replied Ruby, as the light in question disappeared. "It is de light'ouse den?" "I don't know," said Ruby, "but we shall soon see." Just then a thought flashed into Ruby's mind.
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