CHAPTER XXVII—ON THE BEACH CHAPTER XXVIII—A TRUCE CHAPTER XXVIII—A TRUCE CHAPTER XXIX—THE HIDDEN GOLD CHAPTER XXIX—THE HIDDEN GOLD CHAPTER XXX—THE LAST OF THE WRECK CHAPTER XXX—THE LAST OF THE WRECK CHAPTER XXXI—A GIFT FROM THE DEAD CHAPTER XXXI—A GIFT FROM THE DEAD CHAPTER XXXII—THE BARRIERS GO DOWN CHAPTER XXXII—THE BARRIERS GO DOWN THE SECRET OF THE REEF THE SECRET OF THE REEF CHAPTER I—DISMISSED The big liner’s smoke streamed straight astern, staining the soft blue of the sky, as, throbbing gently to her engines’ stroke, she clove her way through the smooth heave of the North Pacific. Foam blazed with phosphorescent flame beneath her lofty bows and, streaking with green and gold scintillations the long line of hull that gleamed ivory-white in the light of a half moon, boiled up again in fiery splendor in the wake of the twin screws. Mastheads and tall yellow funnels raked across the sky with a measured swing, the long deck slanted gently, its spotless whiteness darkened by the dew, and the draught the boat made struck faint harmonies like the tinkle of elfin harps from wire shroud and guy. Now they rose clearly; now they were lost in the roar of the parted swell. A glow of electric light streamed out from the saloon-companion and the smoking-room; the skylights of the saloon were open, and when the notes of a piano drifted aft with a girl’s voice, Jimmy Farquhar, second mate, standing dressed in trim white uniform beneath a swung-up
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