Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-12-14
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SYNOPSIS tF IEEt tDiNi tHAfl EES.
CHAPTER AT dayhreak an assistant keeper
Of the lighthouse. pacrG The gallery, discovers
III the distance ship in distress. stephen
Erand agree to swim to il. Upon reaching the
ship he comes in contact with shark. nights
aud kills il and goes aboard. He finds the body
oi dead man and strange bundle beneath the
snil. Jones. The lighthouse keeper. lowers a
basket and haus brand and his strange bundle
safely up 1.-THE bundle contains a live baby.
OF which Jones assumes the care. On a part of
the chld's clothing are the initials :" f. i.
The little one is placed in care OF the nurse who
has charge of stephen Brands child in Pen
zancc They call the child Enid Ir"villion. Ill
Zig, teen years later Constance irand: dauSh-
Ter of stephen Brand. and her adopted sister,
Enid TrevIllion 20 to The lighthouse with an
o.d ii-hermap Fen Pollard, Ill a saiboat named
Daisy They are caught in storm. during
which they hear the signal for help coming from
the rock. They reach the lighthouse in safety
and find that two of the men, Jackson and Bate,
have been hurt. Brand sends the men back with
Eru. iN-Jackson and Bates are lowered into
TIE boat. and Pollard starts for Penzsnce. The
l'ai-y is met by Lieutenant >tanhope, who Is
dcvotodly in love with Enid. lie has started
out for the light house in answer to the signal
for help On mecfing the Daisy he turns back
To- assist with the Injured men. V-From u
Ii .hthouse window End spies boat approach
ing the rock 1t is the Lapwing. owned by a
sailed by Stanhope. He signals for them not to
land. aud stanhope returns to Penzance. The
Urls spend the night at the rock. NI-Durlng
Inc night a furious storm renders sleep impos-
A.ble. Al dawn from the lighthouse gallery
brand makes out ship in great distress. VII
Charles a. Pyne, young man on board throws
q rope from the foremost 10 Brand and by
means of pulley seventy eight people are saved
before the ship sinks. NIII-Mrs. Eansittart,
Pyne's aunt, is strangely moved at sight of Con-
stance. IX-Mrs Vansittart inquiries about
Stephen Brand and his daughter and seeks to
meet Brand. but fails. X-Stanhope in the Fal-
con approaches the lighthouse at daybreak in an
effort to rescue Enid and COnsta nce, but is I'M
able to land on account of high seas. Brand
signals news Of the disaster. Constance and
Pyne become we'll acquainted. XI-The Falcon
puts back to PenZance, but returns the next
day, bringing MIR. Trail, whom Mrs. Vansittart
messages TO Mrs. Vansittart and TO Pyne, his
nephew. XII-Stanhope has signaled from the
boat his proposal to Enid. The food is giving
out, and starvation threatens, when two boats
arrive, the Falcon and another. but even with a
raft It In impossible to reach the rock. XIII and
XIN-Stanhope decides to row to the lighthouse
and signals to Brand Brand tries in vain to
persuade him not to-. Stanhope, with Ben Pol
lard and Jim Spence, reaches the rock in safhty
and con 1ects q rope after desperate struggle.
XV-PrOvsiOns and mail matter are ferried to
the lighthouse In letter to Brand Mr.: Trail
states that the initials +. T. Enid's little vest
stand for Edith Trail. his daughter. who it was
thought was lost with her mother on board the
wrecked vessel nineteen years previous. XVI
The lighthouse prisoners are taken to Penzance
in a lifcbOat, where Mr.. Trail gives q dinner to
Mrs. Vansittart Lady Margaret StanhOpe's
mother; Constance, Enid, StanhOpe and Pyne.
brand arrives at the hotel later and meets Mrs.
Fnnsittart and finds that she is his wife.