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Stella Fregelius

CHAPTER VIII
10/29

Yes, and certainly she was named Stella.

But there was no woman among those who had come to land, and he understood the injured man to suggest that his daughter had been left upon the steamer which was said to have gone ashore upon some rocks; or, perhaps, upon the Sunk Rocks themselves.
Now, the only rocks within twenty miles of them were these famous Sunk Rocks, about six knots away.

Even within his own lifetime four vessels had been lost there, either because they had missed, or mistaken, the lightship signal further out to sea, as sometimes happened in a fog such as prevailed this night, or through false reckonings.

The fate of all these vessels had been identical; they had struck upon the reef, rebounded or slid off, and foundered in deep water.

Probably in this case the same thing had happened.


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