Darry the Life Saver

Darry the Life Saver, by Frank V.
Webster

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Title: Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast
Author: Frank V. Webster
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DARRY THE LIFE SAVER Or The Heroes of the Coast
By FRANK V. WEBSTER
Author of "Only a Farm Boy," "Bob the Castaway," "The Boys of
Bellewood School," etc.
ILLUSTRATED
New York Cupples & Leon Company Publishers
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BOOKS FOR BOYS
By FRANK V. WEBSTER
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume, 40 cents, postpaid
ONLY A FARM BOY TOM, THE TELEPHONE BOY THE BOY
FROM THE RANCH THE YOUNG TREASURE HUNTER BOB,
THE CASTAWAY THE YOUNG FIREMEN OF LAKEVILLE THE
NEWSBOY PARTNERS THE BOY PILOT OF THE LAKES TWO
BOY GOLD MINERS JACK, THE RUNAWAY COMRADES OF
THE SADDLE THE BOYS OF BELLWOOD SCHOOL THE HIGH
SCHOOL RIVALS AIRSHIP ANDY BOB CHESTER'S GRIT BEN
HARDY'S FLYING MACHINE DICK, THE BANK BOY DARRY,
THE LIFE SAVER
Copyright, 1911, by CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
DARRY, THE LIFE SAVER
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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Hurricane 1 II. Saved by the Life Chain 10 III. Abner Peake's
Offer 19 IV. The Cabin by the Sea 29 V. An Encounter on the Road 39
VI. Winning His Way 46 VII. The Midnight Alarm 55 VIII. Across the
Bay 63 IX. The Signal Rocket 71 X. Jim the Bully 78 XI. A Glorious
Prospect 86 XII. The Stolen Traps 94 XIII. Joe's Shotgun Secures a
Supper 102 XIV. The Lonely Vigil of the Coast Patrol 110 XV. The
Power of Music 117 XVI. Darry Meets with a Rebuff 124 XVII. Abner
Tells a Little History 132 XVIII. The Imprisoned Launch 139 XIX. The
Part of an Elder Brother 146 XX. Bad Luck and Good 154 XXI.
Satisfying the Mortgage 162 XXII. Abner Hears the News 171 XXIII.
Darry in the Lifeboat 179 XXIV. The Awakening 191 XXV.
Conclusion 202
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DARRY, THE LIFE SAVER
CHAPTER I
THE HURRICANE
"Will we ever weather this terrible storm?"
It was a half-grown lad who flung this despairing question out; the
wind carried the sound of his voice off over the billows; but there came
no answer.
A brigantine, battered by the tropical hurricane sweeping up from the
Caribbean Sea, was staggering along like a wounded beast. Her masts
had long since gone by the board, and upon the stump of the
mizzen-stick a bit of canvas like a goose-wing had been spread in the
useless endeavor to maintain steerageway.
All around, the sea rose and fell in mountainous waves, on which the

poor wreck tossed about, as helpless as a cork.
Though the lad, lashed to some of the rigging that still clung to the
temporary jury mast, strained his eyes to the utmost, he could see
nothing but the waste of waves, the uplifting tops of which curled over,
and were snatched away in flying spud by the furious wind.
Darry was the cabin boy of the Falcon, having sailed with Captain
Harley now for several years. The old navigator had run across him in a
foreign port, and under most peculiar conditions.
Hearing a boyish voice that somehow struck his fancy, raised in angry
protest, followed by the crack of a whip, and much loud laughing, the
skipper of the brigantine had pushed into a café in Naples.
Here he discovered a small, but sturdy lad, who had apparently been
playing a violin for coppers, refusing to dance for a big brute of a sailor,
an Italian, who had seized upon his beloved instrument.
When the boy had made an effort to recover the violin the bully
deliberately smashed it on the back of a chair.
Then, laughing at the poor little chap's expressions of grief as he
gathered up the pieces tenderly in his arms, the brutal sailor had seized
upon a carter's whip, and cracking it loudly, declared that he would lay
it over the boy's shoulders unless he mounted a table and danced to his
whistling.
It was then that the big mariner strode in and stood between the lad and
his cowardly persecutors.
When good-hearted Captain Harley heard the boy's pitiful story, and
that he