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The Stowaway Girl

Louis Tracy

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Book Excerpt: 
. . . were in a fairly smooth roadstead; the remnants of the gale were shouldered away from the ship by the towering cliff that jutted out on the left of the bay. The crew were mostly occupied in clearing blocks and tackle and swinging two life-boats outward on their davits.

"All ready forrard?" roared Coke. Hozier ran to the forecastle. He found the carpenter there, standing by the windlass brake.

"All ready, sir!" he cried.

Coke nodded to him.

"Give her thirty-five," he said, meaning thereby that the anchor should be allowed thirty-five fathoms of chain.

From the bridge, where Iris was standing, she could follow each movement of the commander's hands as he signaled in dumbshow to the steersman or telegraphed instructions to the engine-room. It was interesting to watch the alertness of the men on duty. They were a scratch crew, garnered from the four quarters of the globe at the Liverpool shipping office, . . . Read More

Community Reviews

The girl who stows away on a ship is a twenty-year-old called Iris. She wants some time to herself after unwillingly agreeing to appease her uncle by marrying a man aged sixty-eight. Iris meets a young man whom she falls for after her finds her hiding place.

Complications set in following a ship wrec

20 year old Iris Yorke, stows away on a ship to avoid her shipping owner uncle's effort to marry her to a 68 year old man in order for the man's financial help. The ship's captain had warned the uncle that the ship's seaworthiness was highly questionable. She falls in love with the crew member, Phil

good read, enjoyed the language .. kept me turing pages ..