{"product_id":"2940013669185","title":"Rugged Water","description":"A dark night, but a clear one.  No clouds, no fog, and the wind but\u003cbr\u003ea light southwesterly breeze.  Warm, too, for November.  The little\u003cbr\u003eroom in the tower of the Setuckit Life-Saving Station was chilly,\u003cbr\u003eof course--a landsman might have considered it decidedly cold--but\u003cbr\u003eto Seleucus Gammon, the member of the Setuckit crew on watch in the\u003cbr\u003etower, it was warm, noticeably and surprisingly so.  Seleucus, who\u003cbr\u003ehad come on duty dressed for the ordinary November temperature, had\u003cbr\u003eunbuttoned the heavy jacket which he wore over his sweater and had\u003cbr\u003ehung his cap on the hook on the wall, beside the round, brass\u003cbr\u003eship's clock.  The brass of the clock was polished to a mirror-like\u003cbr\u003eglisten.  So, too, was the metal of the telescope on its stand in\u003cbr\u003ethe middle of the room.  So, also, was every particle of brass or\u003cbr\u003enickel in that room.  There was no light to render these things\u003cbr\u003evisible, and no stove or other heating apparatus.  Heat within and\u003cbr\u003ecold without meant frost-covered window panes and consequent\u003cbr\u003edifficulty in looking through and from those windows, in keeping\u003cbr\u003ewatch up and down the beaches and over the stretches of sea and\u003cbr\u003eshoal.  In many stations at this period it was not customary to\u003cbr\u003ekeep a man on watch in the tower at night; the regulations did not\u003cbr\u003erequire it and the matter was left to the discretion of the keeper.\u003cbr\u003eAt Setuckit, however, night watch in the tower was a part of the\u003cbr\u003eregular routine; at least, since Captain Oswald Myrick had been in\u003cbr\u003echarge there.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeleucus strolled slowly about the glass-inclosed room, stopping to\u003cbr\u003epeer from each window in turn.  He was a huge, bulky man, with a\u003cbr\u003esalt sea roll in his walk, and as he lumbered from window to window\u003cbr\u003ein the darkness, a seeker for comparisons might have been reminded\u003cbr\u003eof a walrus wallowing about in an undersized tank.  A bald head and\u003cbr\u003ea tremendous sweep of shaggy mustache were distinct aids to the\u003cbr\u003ewalrus suggestion.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070171758832,"sku":"2940013669185","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013669185_p0.jpg?v=1763584117","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013669185","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}