Societies for visiting prisons, libraries for the Coastguard men, reformatory schools for juvenile offenders, were among the many institutions which she established.

At the entrance of the river is a coastguard station, and this I find is the place to which I must go in the morning to observe the tide.

I had some talk with the coastguard people, and they assure me that the tide is really double as reported.

The coastguard was looking at it through his telescope, and before very long the shore was covered with fishermen and their wives, all gazing in the same direction.

The little coastguard station by the opening on to the shore has difficulty in showing itself superior to the rest in these essential matters of smartness.

However, the coastguards glory in a little stone pathway protected by a low wall in front of their building.

At high-tide the sea comes halfway up the steep opening between the coastguards' quarters and the inn which is built on another bastion, and in rough weather the waves break hungrily on to the strong stone walls, for the bay is entirely open to the full force of gales from the east or north-east.

You mind your Coastguard, and we'm mind our trade.

"There she is, sir," says Brown, the head-boatman to the coastguard lieutenant.

The coastguard lieutenant settles down in his macintoshes, knowing that his duty is not to leave as long as there is a chance of savingnot a life, for that was past all hope, but a chest of clothes or a stick of timber.

Later in the day Tom met the coastguard lieutenant and old Captain Willis on the shore, and the latter introduced him to "Miss Harvey, the young person who saved your life last night.

Frank Headley backed up Tom in his sanitary crusade, the coastguard lieutenant proved an unexpected ally, and Grace Harvey promised that she would do all she could.

Women hurry to put on their best bonnets; the sexton toddles up with the church key in his hand, and the ringers at his heels; the Coastguard Lieutenant bustles down to the Manby's mortar, which he has hauled out in readiness on the pebbles.

Lying out at sea, opposite Amble coastguard station, the white lighthouse on Coquet Island keeps watch over the entrance to the harbour.

There is here a cheery-looking white-washed coastguard station standing on the bold headland of Newton Point.

To make a brief exploration of the country east of Weymouth the road should be taken that keeps close to the shore until the coastguard station at Furzy Cliff is reached.

Close to the church and the Coach and Horses Hotel, the unpretentious but comfortable hostelry on the left of the street, a lane leads to the coastguard station and beach.

[Illustration: Coastguard (rung up by the Military).

After leaving the coastguard signal station one reaches Stair Hole, a cavity walled off from the sea by Portland limestone.

But there was more than one place to go in that wonderful week; more than ships to see if one would know something of the intricate, busy world of the Admiralty's work, which makes coastguards a part of its personnel.

It had become a matter for the secret police; the coastguard or customs officials were no longer able to deal with it.

M. le Duc has doubled the customs personnel on the Swiss frontier, the coastguard is both keen and efficient, and yet we know that at the present moment there are thousands of English files used in this country, even inside His Majesty's own armament works.