"If this thing keeps up much longer, I'll just be a wreck, that's all," groaned Laura, and almost immediately she fell asleep.

Then the boys bent down and began extricating the groaning thing from the wreck of something.

The boys had succeeded in removing the man from the wreckageone glance about them told the girls that the wreck had once been an aeroplaneand the man, who was elderly, lay quite still, looking up at them with sick eyes.

" "It's a miracle," said Teddy, who had joined her and was looking down at the wreck soberly, "that he ever came out alive.

He will alone wreck the rebel cause if he is given time.

He had known the company that bought her was getting near the rocks, but they had insured her heavily and there was something strange about the wreck.

If his supposition were correct, the wreck might be worth buying and one could, no doubt, buy her very cheap.

After weighing for some weeks all he could learn about the wreck on the African coast, Cartwright went to London and was carried up one morning to the second floor of an imposing office block.

" "Then, I expect you have made some calculations and know all about the efforts to float the wreck.

All the same, Mr. Morse did not altogether see why he wanted to buy the wreck.

"Personally, I felt from the beginning there was a mystery about the wreck.

Soon after his return he sent for Lister and told him about the wreck and his salvage plans.

"If you can float the wreck and bring her home, I expect some of the big salvage companies will offer you a post.

Why do you hope to lift the wreck when the salvage men could not?" Cartwright smiled.

He told her about the wreck, and smiled when he stated that Lister would have control.

Finding it necessary to go to London, he called on the gentleman from whom he had bought the wreck a short time ago.

I want you to make an extra effort, because" She paused and the blood came to her skin when she went on: "You see, it's important you should float the wreck and bring her home.

Cartwright sends me off to float the wreck, and if it's possible, I must make good.

CHAPTER II THE WRECK The night was calm, but now and then a faint, hot wind blew from the shadowy coast, and rippling the water, brought a strange, sour smell.

He first repaired the damaged ships, freed the slaves that served on the triremes, and assigned the spare seamen, (many of whom when their vessels were destroyed in the wreck had dived and escaped by swimming) to Antony's fleet, which was short of men.

The wreck of the steamship Titanic, of the White Star Line, the newest and biggest and presumably the safest ship in the world, is the greatest marine disaster known in the history of ocean traffic.

Far as the eye could reach no spot of light broke the gray darkness; yet other ships could hear and read the cry for help, and, wheeling in their courses, they drove full speed ahead for the wreck.

Now and then he gave the ship's position in latitude and longitude as nearly as it could be estimated by her officers as she was carried southward by the current that runs swiftly in this northern sea, so that the rescuers could keep their prows accurately pointed toward the wreck.

And when the last crowded boat had come down and there was no possibility of removing one more human being from the wreck, there were still more than fifteen hundred men on her decks.

The conquerors pursued them a little way, and in the evening returned to the wreck, seizing the remainder of the enemy's vessels, and getting back some of their own, for they had themselves lost no less than fourscore islands in the engagement.

If I could see my heart's desire on the knaves, little would I reck submitting to the sway of the Emperor.

Alive or dead (I reck not how I die), You, them, and these I desperately defy.

Our ready chaff, our wordy frays, Conviction backed by young conceit, Have left no echoes; nothing stays To mark how once we "led the street;" But others come with youthful heat, Nor reck of those who came before, And play their parttheir years complete; Another's name is on the door.

"Tantae molis erat disjunctis condere Gentem!" CHAPTER V. Oglethorpe intended to visit Boston, in New EnglandGovernor Belcher's Letter to himProvincial Assembly appoint a Committee to receive himSets out on an exploratory ExcursionNames an Island, JekylVisits Fort ArgyleReturns to SavannahSaltzburgh emigrants, conducted by Baron Von Reck, come to settle in GeorgiaOglethorpe assists them in selecting a placeThey call it

An English vessel was sent to convey them from Rotterdam to Dover; and thence they embarked on the 8th of January, 1734, on board the ship Purrysburgh, Captain Frey, under the more immediate care and conduct of the Baron Philip George Frederick Von Reck, together with their Reverend Pastors, John Martin Bolzius and Israel Christian Gronau.

The pastors Gronau and Bolzius, with the commissary Von Reck, and Dr. Zweitzer were lodged in the house of the Reverend Mr. Quincy, whom they had met at Charlestown, on his return from a visit which he had been paying to his parents in Boston, Massachusetts, when he obligingly offered them the accommodation.

To fulfil this engagement, immediately after his return, attended with Paul Jenys, Esq., Speaker of the House of Assembly of South Carolina, and some other gentlemen, he set out on the 15th of March, with Baron Von Reck, the commissary, Mr. Gronau, one of the ministers, Mr. Zweitzer their Doctor, and one of the elders, taking some Indians as guides, to explore the part of the country which answered to the description of the Saltzburgers.

[Footnote 2: Extract from a manuscript of Von Reck's Journal, furnished me by J.K. Tefft, Esq. of Savannah.]

Oglethorpe immediately addressed a letter to Sir John Phillips, Baronet, notifying him of his return, and giving him the pleasing intelligence of the safe arrival of the Baron Von Reck, and the Saltzburgers, whom he called "a very sensible, active, laborious, and pious people."

"On the 13th of October, 1735, embarked on board the London Merchant, Captain Thomas, commander, fifty-six men, women, and children, Saltzburgers, and some other persecuted protestants from Germany, with Mr. Von Reck, who conducted from the same parts a former transport in 1733, and Captain Hermsdorf, going to settle with their countrymen in Georgia.

By Philip George Frederic von Reck.

We reck not which, and welcome give to thee; Wouldst thou here sport with us within the sea?"

" "Oh, what reck I thy gold?" quoth Earl Sigurd, the bold; "Has not Thor laid it all in my hand?

But little enough did either Ted or Madeline reck of Fred's or any other opinion as they fared their blithe and care-free way that gala week.

reck not of the after-time, Honour may be deem'd dishonour, loyalty be called a crime.

MALLECZEWEN, FRITZ RECK-. SEE Reck-Malleczewen, Fritz.

SEE Reck-Malleczewen, Fritz.

RECK-MALLECZEWEN, FRITZ.

By David Irwin & Franklin M. Reck.

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RECK, CLAIRE Y. Varsity letter.

SEE Reck, Franklin M. RECK, FRANKLIN M. Varsity letter.

SEE Reck, Franklin M. RECK, FRANKLIN M. Varsity letter.

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Towards the end of the tenth century, under Richard II., Duke of Normandy, called the Good, and whilst the good King Robert was reigning in France, "In several countships of Normandy," says William of Jumiege, "all the peasants, assembling in their conventicles, resolved to live according to their inclinations and their own laws, as well in the interior of the forests as along the rivers, and to reck nought of any established right.