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  ILLUSTRATIONS

  FACING PAGEThe Gleam That Brings Hope _Frontispiece_

  The Light That Never Sleeps 10

  The Lonely Watcher of the Coast 20

  Where Patrols Meet. The Half-way Point 20

  Breaking a Death-Clutch from Behind 32

  Breaking a Death-Clutch from the Front 32

  The "Eddystone" of America 42

  Lighthouse Tender Approaching Buoy 54

  Refilling Pintsch Gas Buoy 54

  Sliding Down to Work 64

  The Defier of the Pacific 76

  A Beacon Masked in Ice 86

  Wrecked! And the Ice Between! 100

  Laying the Lyle Gun 110

  Firing the Shot and Line 110

  Gold Life-Saving Medal 118

  Life-boat Capsize-Drill 138

  Rushing the Apparatus-Cart 146

  Breeches-Buoy Drill. Firing 158

  Breeches-Buoy Drill. Rescuing Survivor 158

  The Lightship That Went Ashore 168

  Guarding the Graveyard of the Deep 168

  Coast Guard Cutter, _Miami_, on July Fourth 194

  The _Bear_ in the Ice Pack 202

  The _Bear_ Breaking Free from the Ice 202

  Reindeer Messengers of Rescue 210

  Reindeer That Saved Three Hundred Lives 210

  Signals That Guard Our Coast 224

  Going to Pieces Fast 234

  "We Saved 'Em All" 234

  Native Refugees from Katmai Eruption 244

  "The Iron Rim Rolling Savagely" 256

  "The Boat Went into Matchwood" 266

  Man's Waterspout. A Derelict's End 280

  Preparing to Blow Up a Derelict 280

  The Greatest Menace of the Seas 290

  Burned to the Water's Edge 290

  Foam--The Derelict's Only Tombstone 300

  Mining a Lurking Peril 300

  Stranded! After Storm Has Ceased and Tide Has Ebbed 310

  The Signal of Distress That Was Never Seen 320

  Iceberg with _Miami_ in the Background 330

  The Ghostly Ally of Disaster 330

  A Rescue on the Diamond Shoals 340