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CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. Father and Sons
II. Captain Ramon Casalle and his Men
III. How Tom lit a Fire on Misty Head, and what came of it
IV. Captain Sam Hawkins and the Lady Alicia
V. The Captain of the Bandolier
VI. Tom meets some Strangers on Wreck Reef
VII. Northward to the Solomons
VIII. Captain Bully Hayes comes on Board
IX. The Fight on Board the Leonie
X. Tom and Maori Bill go on a Boat Voyage
XI. Jack and his Father hear Good News
XII. Henry Casalle also hears Good News
XIII. Jack has Misgivings
XIV. The Malolo sails in Search of Tom
XV. On Alofi Island
XVI. The ending of the Boat Voyage
XVII. Back to Fotuna
XVIII. Together at Last
XIX. Outward Bound
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
’She was running before the Wind’ . . . _Frontispiece_
’She was soon run out of the Shed’
’He lay stunned and Helpless’
’How’s that, my Son?’
’A Black Wall of Sea towered high over the Rail’
’Old Sam clambered up to the Fore-yard’
’He saw a Man in the Dress of a Priest’
’I’ll pound the Life out of you’
’Mr. Wallis turned the Key’
’I shall say "No," said the Girl’
’The Crew at once struck up a Canoe Song’
TOM WALLIS
CHAPTER I
FATHER AND SONS
Northward from an Australian city, and hidden from seaward view by high
wooded bluffs and green belts of dense wind-swept scrub, there lies one
of the oldest and quaintest little seaport towns on the whole eastern
sea-board, from the heat-smitten rocks of Cape York, in the far north of
torrid Queensland, to where, three thousand miles to the south, the
sweeping billows from the icy Antarctic leap high in air, and thunder
against the grim and rugged walls of stark Cape Howe.
The house in which the Wallis family lived stood at the foot of one of
these bluffs, within a stone’s throw of the beach, and overlooking the
bar; and at night time, when the swift outward rush of the river’s
current met the curling rollers from the open sea, the wild clamour and
throbbing hum seemed to shake the walls of the old-fashioned building to
its foundations. But to the two Wallis boys--who were born in that
house--the noise of the beating surf, the hoarse shrieking notes of the
myriad sea-birds, and the sough of the trade wind through the timbered
slopes, were voices that they knew and understood, and were in a manner
part and parcel of their own adventurous natures.
Let me try and attempt to draw, however rudely, an outline of a picture
of their home, and of the sight that every morning the two lads saw from
their bedroom window, before they clattered downstairs into the
low-ceiled old-time dining-room, to each eat a breakfast that would have
done credit to a hungry bullock-driver.
CHAPTER
I. Father and Sons
II. Captain Ramon Casalle and his Men
III. How Tom lit a Fire on Misty Head, and what came of it
IV. Captain Sam Hawkins and the Lady Alicia
V. The Captain of the Bandolier
VI. Tom meets some Strangers on Wreck Reef
VII. Northward to the Solomons
VIII. Captain Bully Hayes comes on Board
IX. The Fight on Board the Leonie
X. Tom and Maori Bill go on a Boat Voyage
XI. Jack and his Father hear Good News
XII. Henry Casalle also hears Good News
XIII. Jack has Misgivings
XIV. The Malolo sails in Search of Tom
XV. On Alofi Island
XVI. The ending of the Boat Voyage
XVII. Back to Fotuna
XVIII. Together at Last
XIX. Outward Bound
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
’She was running before the Wind’ . . . _Frontispiece_
’She was soon run out of the Shed’
’He lay stunned and Helpless’
’How’s that, my Son?’
’A Black Wall of Sea towered high over the Rail’
’Old Sam clambered up to the Fore-yard’
’He saw a Man in the Dress of a Priest’
’I’ll pound the Life out of you’
’Mr. Wallis turned the Key’
’I shall say "No," said the Girl’
’The Crew at once struck up a Canoe Song’
TOM WALLIS
CHAPTER I
FATHER AND SONS
Northward from an Australian city, and hidden from seaward view by high
wooded bluffs and green belts of dense wind-swept scrub, there lies one
of the oldest and quaintest little seaport towns on the whole eastern
sea-board, from the heat-smitten rocks of Cape York, in the far north of
torrid Queensland, to where, three thousand miles to the south, the
sweeping billows from the icy Antarctic leap high in air, and thunder
against the grim and rugged walls of stark Cape Howe.
The house in which the Wallis family lived stood at the foot of one of
these bluffs, within a stone’s throw of the beach, and overlooking the
bar; and at night time, when the swift outward rush of the river’s
current met the curling rollers from the open sea, the wild clamour and
throbbing hum seemed to shake the walls of the old-fashioned building to
its foundations. But to the two Wallis boys--who were born in that
house--the noise of the beating surf, the hoarse shrieking notes of the
myriad sea-birds, and the sough of the trade wind through the timbered
slopes, were voices that they knew and understood, and were in a manner
part and parcel of their own adventurous natures.
Let me try and attempt to draw, however rudely, an outline of a picture
of their home, and of the sight that every morning the two lads saw from
their bedroom window, before they clattered downstairs into the
low-ceiled old-time dining-room, to each eat a breakfast that would have
done credit to a hungry bullock-driver.