To the Reader

However bleak the Labrador—however naked and desolate that shore—flowers bloom upon it. However bitter the despoiling sea—however cold and rude and merciless—the gentler virtues flourish in the hearts of the folk.... And the glory of the coast—and the glory of the whole world—is mother-love: which began in the beginning and has continued unchanged to this present time—the conspicuous beauty of the fabric of life: the great constant of the problem.

N. D.

College Campus,
Washington, Pennsylvania,
October 15, 1904.

Contents

I.Our Harbour[13]
II.The World from the Watchman[17]
III.In the Haven of Her Arms[29]
IV.The Shadow[35]
V.Mary[48]
VI.The Man on the Mail-Boat[57]
VII.The Woman from Wolf Cove[70]
VIII.The Blind and the Blind[79]
IX.A Wreck on the Thirty Devils[89]
X.The Flight[102]
XI.The Women at the Gate[110]
XII.Doctor and I[115]
XIII.A Smiling Face[125]
XIV.In The Watches of the Night[133]
XV.The Wolf[138]
XVI.A Malady of the Heart[150]
XVII.Hard Practice[167]
XVIII.Skipper Tommy Gets a Letter[182]
XIX.The Fate of the Mail-Boat Doctor[191]
XX.Christmas Eve at Topmast Tickle[202]
XXI.Down North[219]
XXII.The Way from Heart’s Delight[222]
XXIII.The Course of True Love[239]
XXIV.The Beginning of the End[258]
XXV.A Capital Crime[265]
XXVI.Decoyed[287]
XXVII.The Day of the Dog[305]
XXVIII.In Harbour[320]