"It is not only upon the water that people die by what we call accident,
daughter," the captain answered; "many horrible deaths occur on
land--many to which drowning would in my opinion be far preferable.

"But you must remember that we are under God's care and protection
everywhere, on land and on sea; and that if we are His children no real
evil can befall us. I am very glad you love me, my child, but I would
not have you make yourself unhappy with useless fears on my account.
Trust the Lord for me and all whom you love."

They pressed onward and presently came upon a lovely lakelet near the
beach, as clear as crystal and with bushes with dark green foliage
growing on all sides but that toward the sea.

They stopped for a moment to gaze upon it with surprise and admiration,
then pushed on again till the top of the high bluff known as Tom Never's
Head was reached.

They stood upon its brink and looked off westward and northward over the
heaving, tumbling ocean, as far as the eye could reach to the line where
sea and sky seemed to meet, taking in long draughts of the pure,
invigorating air, and listening to the roar of the breakers below.

"What is that down there?" asked Lulu.

"Part of a wreck, evidently," answered her father; "it must have been
there a long while, it is so deeply imbedded in the sand."

"I wish I knew its story," said Lulu; "I hope everybody wasn't drowned