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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Jing, it's good to be up and out again!" said Freddy, as both boys pitched into biscuits and jam. "I felt down and out this morning sure, Dan, and now everything is working fine. We're going to have the time of our lives this summer, after all. Even Dud Fielding is cooling off, Jim Norris says, now that his nose has gone down, and he has heard about Killykinick."
Give us your boat, man, and Dan and I will go for laddie." "Ye can't, I tell ye!" and the old sailor's voice took a sudden tone of command. "I'm captain of this here Killykinick, Padre; and no boat leaves this shore in the face of such a storm, for it would mean death to every man aboard her, sure and certain death." "The Lord have mercy, the Lord have mercy!" cried Brother Bart.
"Ah, it is the good God's hand!" the old priest said softly. "But this is only the start, my son. The climb is still before you, a climb that may lead over steeps sharp and rough as the rocks of Killykinick." But the fading light seemed to aureole Father Mack's silvery head as he spoke.
They were to have stopped at the college camp in Shelter Cove, where Marraine had some girl friends; they were to have kept on their sunlit way to Killykinick, for so dad had agreed; they were to have looked in on the Life-Saving Station, which Marraine had never seen; in fact, they were to have done more pleasant things than Polly could count, and now the storm had fallen on her namesake and spoiled all.
"I wish you were going our way," said Dan, regretfully, as his companion announced that he was to get off at the first point they touched. "Brother Bart is going to granny us all, I know. If we had a real strong man like you around, he wouldn't scare so easily. And there is fine fishing about Killykinick, they say." "So I have heard."
Numbskull Nob, jutting up from a hidden reef, over which a line of white-capped breakers was booming thunderously, seemed to justify the presence of the modern light that warned off closer approach to the island; for the stretch of water that lay between was a treacherous shoal where many a good ship had stranded in years gone by, when Killykinick was only a jagged ledge of rock where the sea birds nested and man had no place.
"Just now I feel like being at peace with everybody." "Not much!" said Jim, impressively. "Or if he did there would be a snake sting ready for you, all the same. I know Dud Fielding. He'll get even with you if he dies for it." "All right!" was the cheerful reply. "Let him get even then. Have you heard about Killykinick, Jim?" "Yes: Father Regan told me.
Altogether, the crew of the "Lady Jane" found things very pleasant, and the first week at Killykinick had all the interest of life in a newly discovered land. Even Brother Bart was argued by the two old salts out of his "nervousness," and laddie was allowed to boat and fish and swim in safe waters under Dan's care; while Jim and Dud looked out for themselves, as such big fellows should.
"I tried to coax her home with me," said Miss Stella, "to make it 'home, as I felt she could; but Baby Danny was in the way, the little Danny that she could not leave." Then Dan, in his turn, told about Killykinick, and how he had been sent there for the summer and had met little Polly.
Luckily, Freddy inherits a fortune from his mother, and is well provided for; and now comes this other heritage from the old great-uncle Killykinick. I really think O God bless me! What is the matter?" asked the speaker, turning with a start, as, reckless of rules and reverence, two white-faced boys burst unannounced into the room. "It's it's it's Freddy Neville, Father!" panted Jim Norris.
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