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Updated: June 6, 2025
Business engagements are made and contracts consummated; brokers keep in touch with their associates on the floors of the exchanges; the patrolmen of the police force keep their chief informed of their movements and the state of the districts under their care; alarms of fire are telephoned to the fire-engine houses, and calls for ambulances bring the swift wagons on their errands of mercy; even wreckers telephone to their divers on the bottom of the bay, and undulating electrical messages travel to the tops of towering sky-scrapers.
It is easily understood that such ties as these had given Augustin a permanent disgust for his rowdy comrades of a former time: he went no more with "The Wreckers." The small circle he took pleasure in was quiet and cheerful. Its merriment was controlled by the African gravity.
I'm pretty well cleared out. They're a hardened lot of wreckers on those islands I've heard that told of them many a time. No doubt their own filth and bad living has brought disease upon them, if there's truth in the tale; and as to this strange woman, giving no testimony or certificate of her respectability, it's a queer thing if she's to begin and teach you religion and duty.
Several of the better disposed of the people now joined themselves to Shane, and prevented the wreckers from continuing their barbarous proceedings.
"Is that a light-house?" asked Annie of Dab. "Yes, and there's a wrecking station close by." "Men there all the while? Are there many wrecks on this coast?" "Ever so many, and there used to be more of them. It was a bad place to run ashore, in those days. Almost as bad as Jersey." "Why?" "Because of the wreckers.
The morning broke on the shore frosty and clear after the subsided storm, and the earliest wreckers, seeking in the drift for Christmas gifts to give their children, found well-remembered parts of the Eli and portions of the tenement of its proprietor.
"Well, they as much as did. They said some of the wreckers had been arrested, and had incriminated the assistant light-keeper. But Duncan was smart enough provided he was guilty to skip out. As I told Joe, his father left just before the letter from Flagstaff came, so he doesn't know his son is alive. Poor man, I'm sorry for him.
The owners say, "Go ahead, and don't bother yourself, she's insured." The captain has got his ship aground in shoal water where she can't sink, and no harm done. The friendly wreckers are close at hand to haul the cargo ashore. The underwriter of the insurance company has shut his eyes and opened his mouth to receive a plum, which, being a good large one, will not let him speak.
"Men who cheat in trade, who scamp work, evade taxes, rack-rent the poor, are no better than pirates and wreckers." "Here we are at the Stack," Harry exclaimed. "Look out there with the sail! Captain, mind your helm. There now; you nearly had her aground!
They are as mythical hereabouts as" he hesitated, seeking a comparison "as the Cornish wreckers; and they never existed outside of pious story-books." Said the Vicar, rising from his garden-chair, "I accept the omen. Wait a moment, you two."
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