The Sea Vultures

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When the wreckers of this story had completed their dastardly work of luring and wrecking a ship upon the rocks, they began looking among the wreckage for valuable. Although there was not enough left of the ship that would sustain life on an angry sea, the wreckers were surprised to find among the wreckage, a young baby, who came through the ordeal safe and sound, watched and guarded by the Higher Power and All-Seeing Eye. The wrecker captain, hardened as he was, could not resist the unconscious appeal of the innocent little life, and with a tenderness not attributed to his calling, he takes the babe and adopts her as his own, lavishing all the love of his pent-up nature upon her. The child grows to beautiful womanhood and in spite of her environment, becomes a sweet, womanly girl, beloved by the reckless and lawless companions of her father. Her beauty, noble character and sweet, womanly ways, gradually softens the heart of her adopted father and when the opportunity presents itself, at her pleading and for her sake, he begins his life of reformation. This does not suit his former companions, who do not cease luring unsuspecting ships upon the rocks with their false beacons, until caught and apprehended by the government. The revenue officials, led by a brace Yankee officer, find the home of the wreckers among the rocks of the dangerous coast. Amid these surroundings the revenue officer meets the adopted daughter of the wrecker captain, and learns from her of her father's desire to reform. With information furnished by her and her adopted father, he captures the gang of wreckers, after a hazardous chase among the dangerous rocks and reefs. Young, beautiful and sweet, the daughter of the wrecking captain charms the revenue officer, and before he leaves the scene of his recent victory, he wins her for his wife.