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Past Cincinnati, past Louisville and the Falls of the Ohio, past Shawnee Town, past Fort Massac, and Diamond Island and Battery Rock, the vessel moved slowly and steadily along. The voyagers were told that the lower river was infested still by wreckers, one scene of whose frequent depredations was Wolf Island.
Stanton?" "I'll call him. I say Tom Tom Cardiff!" he shouted up the lantern tower. "I'll finish cleaning the lens. I've got other work for you. Come down!" "Coming!" was the answer, and a little later a well built young fellow, muscular and of fine appearance, greeted the boys. The introduction was soon made, and the story of the lads told. "Wreckers; eh?" exclaimed Tom Cardiff.
The wreckers went out the moment the news of the calamity of the Swash reached their ears. Some went in quest of the doubloons of the schooner, and others to pick up anything valuable that might be discovered in the neighbourhood of the stranded brig.
It had been the talk of the neighborhood for years that the alley would have to go in the Elm Street widening which was to cut a swath through the block, right over the site upon which it stood; and at last notice was given about Christmas time that the wreckers were coming.
Except in Egypt, Asia Minor, Greece, and perhaps Italy, they came in contact everywhere with savage races; they had to enter into close relations with men treacherous, bloodthirsty, covetous men who were almost always thieves, who were frequently cannibals, sometimes wreckers who regarded foreigners as a cheap and very delicious kind of food.
"The old bell is welcoming us, Ida May," Captain Latham said to the girl who reclined in a canvas chair which the cook had raked out of the lazaret for her use. "I've beat my way in here when it hasn't sounded so cheerful." "I am wondering what sort of welcome I shall receive when we get to Wreckers' Head, do you call it?" she asked softly.
When some rich argosy upon the commercial ocean fired her minute-guns, and sent up signals of distress, menaced by the furious tempest, lifted high on the crest of mountainous waves, below which, black and fathomless, yawn the valleys of death, a frail ark hovering above the ravening jaws of all-devouring Poseidon, Philip Sheldon was among that chosen band of desperate wreckers who dared to face the storm, and profit by the tempest and terror.
Still, there hung around the place the memories or traditions of past violence, shipwreck, and murder partly true, perhaps, but, doubtless, generally false, having only a few grains of fact or probability mingled with all kinds of distorted fictions the deeds of pirates being supplemented to those of mere wreckers; the imaginations of fishermen along the coast ever inventing plenteous horrors, and wild tales of buccaneering rovers, originally written for other localities, being now wilfully adopted and here located, until, at last, there was hardly a known crime which could not find its origin or counterpart at Beacon Ledge, and the whole neighboring shore became a melancholy storehouse of terrors, disaster, and distress.
The other was Jerry Boundley, while the name of the life saver was Frank Hale. "Yes, it's quite a tramp," said Tom Cardiff, "and the wreckers may be there now. Several small trading vessels are expected up the coast this week, and some may be due to-night.
"To think that we would stumble on the wreckers right at work. We can lead the police to the very place where they have set up their false light." "Maybe we can do better than that, Joe." "How?" "Why, we may be able to help the police catch these same fellows." "That's so. Have you a plan, Blake?" asked his chum, eagerly, as they walked on along the path. "Not yet, but we'll make one up.
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