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Updated: September 6, 2025
Now you boys can have a couple of days off, if you like, and I hope you'll find those miscreants." "I wish we could get you some moving pictures of them," spoke Blake; "but I'm afraid it's out of the question." The boys were soon at the scene of the disappointment the night before. Daylight revealed more clearly the haste with which the wreckers had removed their false lantern.
Upon the bluff of Wreckers' Head was to be dimly seen the sprawling Ball homestead. Tunis pointed it out to the passenger. "That is where you are going to be happy, Ida May," he said to her softly. "I wonder," murmured the girl. He looked down into her rapt face. The violet eyes were fixed upon the old house and the brown-and-green fields immediately surrounding it.
What do you mean?" demanded the station master, as he threw some more waste paper on the fire, which he had just lit. "About that dynamite being stolen by train wreckers. They think some of the explosive was brought up here." "Didn't hear of it." "Dynamite is pretty bad stuff to have around, so I've heard." "Awful! Awful!
Neither could your uncle tell you, as you remember." "That's right. Oh, if I could only find dad and her!" and Joe sighed. "But maybe she isn't alive." "It's this way," went on Blake, and he told as much of the lighthouse keeper's story as was wise, keeping from Joe all information about the wreckers.
In out-of-they-way places we received warnings from friendly savages of impending attacks. Our vessel owed two heads to Malaita, which were liable to be collected any time. Then to cap it all, we were wrecked on a reef, and with rifles in one hand warned the canoes of wreckers off while with the other hand we toiled to save the ship.
Let us not, however, condemn the wreckers of windows. Who is to judge even them? Who is to say even of their harsh and cruel reprisals that they were not excusable? May not they too have been ridden by some wild spirit within them, which goaded them to their beastly work?
But very few objects on board were insured, and hundreds of hogsheads of Missouri tobacco and barrels of Kentucky flour were several days afterwards picked up by the Arkansas and Tennessee wreckers.
Ugly water, yes! but what a chance for wreckers! ... Some great ship must have gone to pieces; scores of casks were rolling in the trough, casks of wine. Perhaps it was the Manila, perhaps the Nautilus! A dead cow floated near enough for Mateo to throw his rope over one horn; and they all helped to get it out.
If she was our own child and had growed up here on Wreckers' Head our own born daughter, I couldn't think no more of her. "And you come here and ask us to give countenance for a moment to a half-witted girl that says she belongs here in Ida May's place, and claiming Ida May's name.
Morgan," suddenly asked Margaret, who had been all the time an uneasy listener to the turn the talk had taken, "what is railroad wrecking?" "Oh, it is very simple, at least in some of its forms. The 'wreckers, as they are called, fasten upon some railway that is prosperous, pays dividends, pays a liberal interest on its bonds, and has a surplus.
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