Jack Tier Author:James Fenimore Cooper Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: league within the bay, with a fine dark background of hills to throw her into shadow. Spike ordered every thing taken in but the trysail, under which the brig wa... more »s left to set slowly over towards the western side of the harbor. He now rubbed his hands with delight, and pointed out to Mulford the circumstance that the steamer kept on her course directly athwart the harbor's mouth ! Had she seen the Swash, no doubt she would have turned into the bay also. Nevertheless, an anxious ten minutes succeeded, during which the revenue vessel steamed fairly past, and shut in her naming chimneys again by the eastern headlands of the estuary. chapter{Section 4CHAPTER III. "The we?tern wave was nil a-flamt1, The day was wc-ll-nigh done, Almost upon the western wave Kested the broad bright sun: When that strange ship drove suddenly Betwixt us and the pun.'1 The Anciknt Mabinkr. At that hour, on the succeeding morning, when the light, of day is just beginning to chase away the shadows of night, the Molly Swash became visible within the gloom of the high land which surrounds so much of the bay of Hempstead, under easy sail, backing and tilling, in order to keep within her hiding- place, until a look could be had at the state of things without. Half an hour later, she was so near the entrance of the estuary, as to enable the lookouts aloft to ascertain that the coast was clear, when Spike ordered the helm to be put up, and the brig to be kept away to her course. At this precise moment, Rose appeared on deck, refreshed by the sleep of a quiet night, and with cheeks tinged with a color even more delicate than that which was now glowing in the eastern sky, and almost as brilliant. "We stopped in this bit of a harbor for the night, Miss Rose, that is all," said Spike, observing that his ...« less