Smugglers' Island and the devil fires of San Moros

Smugglers’ Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros
By Clarissa A. Kneeland
With Illustrations by Wallace Goldsmith
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1915
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY CLARISSA A. KNEELAND
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published October 1915

SMUGGLERS’ ISLAND and the Devil Fires of San Moros
Marian Hadley stood in the doorway of her home in a small seaport town of Mexico, watching her ten-year-old brother Delbert come stumbling up the hill with his arms full of mail.
“We’re out early,” he shouted. “The teacher let us all out early. There are the girls coming now, down by the office. Oh! and we’re not going to have any more school this week. The teacher has got to go to the dentist every day, and she isn’t going to feel like teaching; so we are going to have vacation.”
“Dear me,” said Marian, smiling, “what in the wide world will you children do, with so much spare time on your hands?”