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Beadle's New York Dime Library, No. 369

1885 · Free to read

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About this issue

The Siren of the Sea, by Col. Prentiss Ingraham, is a maritime adventure serial set on the Maine coast. During a violent storm off an iron-bound shore, a young girl pilot (Madcap Madge Vernon) takes control of the naval schooner Scorpion and extracts a pledge from its commander, Lieutenant Mayo Maynard, to release his prisoner—a disgraced naval officer named Noel Brandon—in exchange for piloting the vessel to safety in a sheltered cove. Brandon, wounded in his left leg, has been falsely accused of murdering his former captain and robbed of a large sum; Madcap Madge has already aided him once after highway robbers attacked him. Now freed by Maynard's oath, Brandon is transferred to Madcap Madge's father's sloop, the Blue Bell, to escape. The narrative then shifts to the Vernon cottage on the Maine coast, where Skipper Vernon, Madge's father—a tall, military-bearing man of mysterious background who runs a trading vessel—greets his daughter's unexpected return by skiff.

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