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Updated: June 27, 2025
The letter ended up with wishing Biddy a truly happy birthday, and hopes that it might be bright and sunny at Seacove. 'I only wish I could pack up some of the sunshine here to send you, wrote Mr. Vane, 'for we have enough and to spare of it. But after all, the best sunshine of all is that of happy and contented and loving hearts is it not, my Biddy?
Philip Morgan and Al Torrance both were in the yawl, and were assigned to pull oars if the engine went dead from any cause. The two younger Seacove boys were taken by the warrant officer, Mr. Mudge, aboard the buoyant raft. "Well, old man," muttered Torry in his mate's ear, "this is a new experience. We've never been shipwrecked before."
Vane had made the girls get ready early and go a little way down the sandy lane to meet the two coming from Seacove. Bridget was gloomy, but Alie was particularly cheerful, and after a while the younger sister's gloom gave way before the sunshine and the fresh air and Alie's sweetness.
Six weeks or so later Christmas and New Year's day were past; it was the middle of January by this time a little group of children might have been seen standing on the shore about half a mile from Seacove. Though midwinter, it was not very cold. There is a theory that it never is very cold at the seaside. I cannot say that I have always found this the case, but it was so at Seacove.
This last requirement troubled the four friends from Seacove but little, save that Whistler and Torry occasionally wore a little fuzz on their cheeks, which Frenchy declared they lathered surreptitiously with cream, then let the ship's cat lick it off. "If they had a real ship's cat on this iron pot," retorted Torry, "I know who would most frequently have the attention of that.
"If this war was going to be won by talk, like some fellows in Congress seem to think," Al Torrance once said, "Seven Knott wouldn't have a chance. But it is roughnecks just like him that man the boats and shoot the guns that are going to show Kaiser Bill where he gets off believe me!" Elmvale was a factory town not more than six miles above Seacove.
And there's no other shop for books and stationery at Seacove. Mr. Fairchild smiled at the pride with which she said this. 'It would be a bad job for me if there were, he said, 'for as it is there's barely custom for a shop of the kind, and an anxious look came over his face. But Mrs.
Like most boys of Seacove, as well as Elmvale, Whistler was familiar with this stretch of untamed ground and plunged into it with full knowledge of its tangled brier patches and rough quarries. He started diagonally for the dam, and in a brief time came to the edge of the shallow channel, which now carried the overflow of the huge reservoir behind the dam down to the cove.
Vane accept the offer of Seacove had been very important ones. Rosalys, and Randolph too, though in a less thoughtful way, understood all this, and both of the elder children were anxious to help and cheer their parents to the best of their ability.
For the next half mile they ran through more than a foot of water; but it was plain the danger was over. Near the river bank the water flooded the first floors of the houses in the suburbs of Seacove; but there was little other damage done at this distance from the dam. As the water subsided from about them, however, Torry turned the machine around and headed up the road again.
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