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Title: The Wings of the Morning

Author: Louis Tracy

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THE WINGS OF THE MORNING

by

LOUIS TRACY

Author of _A Son of the Immortals_, _The Stowaways_, _The Message_,
_The Wheel o' Fortune_, etc.

New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers

1903.

_If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts
of the sea; even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall
hold me. Psalm CXXXIX, 9, 10_

[Illustration: INVOLUNTARILY SHE CAUGHT HIS ARM. HE STEPPED A HALF-PACE
IN FRONT OF HER TO WARD OFF ANY DANGER THAT MIGHT BE HERALDED BY THIS
UNCANNY PHENOMENON. _Frontispiece_]

CONTENTS

I The Wreck of the _Sirdar_
II The Survivors
III Discoveries
IV Rainbow Island
V Iris to the Rescue
VI Some Explanations
VII Surprises
VIII Preparations
IX The Secret of the Cave
X Reality v. Romance--The Case for the Plaintiff
XI The Fight
XII A Truce
XIII Reality v. Romance--The Case for the Defendant
XIV The Unexpected Happens
XV The Difficulty of Pleasing Everybody
XVI Bargains, Great and Small
XVII Rainbow Island Again--and Afterward

CHAPTER I

THE WRECK OF THE _SIRDAR_

Lady Tozer adjusted her gold-rimmed eye-glasses with an air of
dignified aggressiveness. She had lived too many years in the Far East.
In Hong Kong she was known as the "Mandarin." Her powers of merciless
inquisition suggested torments long drawn out. The commander of the
_Sirdar_, homeward bound from Shanghai, knew that he was about t