Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-01-04
or PRECEDING CHAPTERS


CHAPTER VI day break All -istant keeper
Of the Lighthouse. pacing the gallery, discovers
Ii The di.tan,c a ship N distress. stephen
brand ugrce- to swim To il. Upon reaching the
.hip Ia. comes in contact with shark. fights
and Kills il and goes aboard He finds the body
OF dead man and a strange bundle beneath the
sail. Jones. the lighthouse keeper, lowers
basket and hauls Brand and his strsng" bundle
safely mp. 1.-The bundle contains n live baby.
of VIII, h Jones assumes the care. On II part OF
the childs clothing arr III" initials +. T.
The little one l. placed III care of the nurse who
has charge of stephen Brands child IN Pen
zancc They call the child Enid Treyilhon. III
Eighteen years later Constance Brand. dau.h
ter Of stephen Brand. ami her adopted sister.
Enid Trevlllon. =" 10 The lishthous" with an
old fisherman Fen Pollard, In a saboat 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 Bates,
have been hurt. Brand sends the men back with
Ben. IV-Jackson and Bates are lowered into
the boat. and Pollard starts for Penzance. The
Ibai-y il met b. i.Ieutenant >tanhope, who is
devotedly in love with Enid. lie has started
out for the light house In answer to the signal
for help. On meeting the Daisy he turns back
to assist with the injured men. N-From u
Ing the rock. 1t Is the LapwnS, owned Dy a
man named Lawton. Brand discovers that 1t Is
sailed by Stanhope. He signals for them not to
land. and stanhOpe retnrns to Penzsnce. The
girls spend the night at the rock Nl-DurinS
The night furiou, storm renders sleep impos
sibIe. Al dawn from the lighthouse gallery
Brand makes out ship in great distress. VII
charles 4. ryne young man on board throws
n rope from the foremost /" Brand. and by
means of pulley seventy eight people are saved
before the ship sinks. VllI-Mrs. Eanslttart
Pyne's aunt, is strangely moved at sight of Con-
stance. IN-Mrs. Vansttart 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 Constance, but is un-
able to land ON account of high seas. Brand
signals news of the disaster. Constance and
Pyne become well acquainted. XI-The Falcon
puts back 10 Penzance, but returns the next
dav bringing Mr.. Trail, whom Mrs. Vansittart
is journeying from America to marry. He sends
III -ssa <es to Mrs. Eansttart 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
raft it 10 impossible TO reach the rock XIII and
NIN-Stanhope decides to row to the lighthouse
and signals to Brand. Brand tries In vain to
persuade him not to- Sfauhope, with Ben Pol
lard and Jim Spence, reaches the rock in safhty
and connects rope after desperate struggle.
XV-PrOvsions and mail matter are ferried to
the lighthouse. In letter to Brand Mr.. Trail
states that the initials F. T. on Ends 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 lifebOat, where Mr.. Trail gives dinner to
Mrs. Nansittart, Lady Margaret, Stanhope's
mother; Constance, Enid. Stanhope and Pyne.
lrand arrives at the hotel later and meets Mrs.
Brand tells Constance of her mother and Enid Of
her father. Mrs. Brand goes to Brands house.
where she becomes i'll. XVlII-Lady Margaret
and Stanhope leave the hotel. MIR. Traili and
story of the wreck from which both Enid and
Pyne were rescued. During the night they hear
of Mrs. Nansittart's illness at Brands house.
The next day Enid visits the hotel and meets
her father.