The Dock Rats of New York

ressed with the purity, yet weirdness of her character. He had pressed the girl for some reminiscence of her early childhood

inland, where she had attended the village school, from whence she had passed to t

bedside and attempted to communicate some parting intelligence, but alas! she only succeeded in uttering a few disjointed exclamations, suggestive, but not directly and fully intelligible. The half-uttered exclamations only s

a good-natured, jolly sailor sort of a fellow, and, as intimated, h

time of the detective's strange me

ords which close our preceding chapter, she glided a

xplicit in explaining her immediate peril, and our hero was pr

the midst of white sand-hills, with a few willows planted on a little patch of m

covered himself with a fragment of old sailcloth, and secured a position from where, through a little opening which in the summer was left un

s that sail over the bay. The fisherman, or rather smuggler, was seated before a table on which stood a sh

rm should come to her; and again I don't like to stand in her way; while according to this letter from

an were interrupted by a lo

called the

a roughly dressed man

I see you are

cia, I'm wait

te the old smuggler, and saw the latter cr

what's that

etter from my dead wife, sent to me many years ago when

s been prowling around here?" was the nex

ed to-night, whoever he is! Yes, sir, he'll not cause th

e tumbl

se cruise to-night on purpo

boys chanced t

id the b

business?" ejac

girl, she is, but I don't think she really meant t

ht her in

es

ow

er was intercepted, and so we got into the whole business. I tell you the fellows

w her letter wa

think s

to give the Governme

some fellow, and he's a daring man, too, and a splendid sailor! It's a pity he wasn't one of the crew. I tell y

making love

l from the city; the gal 'laid low' and overheard all that was said, and at the same time she 'nipped' a letter which the man dropped from his jacket, and thus got down on the whole business; but somehow her heart went a

no acquaintance between the

am sure

re you

sir, she's never spoke to him, and as she never has, she never will, for his accou

e been deceived

w s

he would not warn a stranger that his life, was in per

ny difference. She wil

tell abo

do you

ars the man didn't go off

, he

see him

I know

know that the l

very l

measures to warn the man; y

enie. I tell you the men will be raging mad if t

recognize the necessity of

hinking over

er what I p

t suppose he

hould

the question was really addressed to himself. The old smuggler rec

ia s

en someone will appear to claim the girl,

I mean, you have never heard

e is not y

at confession from

the girl'

are

e know t

N

es herself

cion that she is not my

you whether or not

ev

hin

N

she suspects that s

been led to suspect that. She hersel

en tell me h

are

hild it was all right, but now it is not safe. You must give her to me! and listen; should anyone e

come for her, but could I solve o

r w

fri