Transcriber Note Text emphasis denoted as _Italics_. PAT THE LIGHTHOUSE BOY [Illustration: "Where will you go, Jim, when they do take you ashore?"--_Page 199._] _Pat_ _The Lighthouse Boy._ BY E. EVERETT-GREEN, AUTHOR OF "EUSTACE MARCHMONT;" "WINNING THE VICTORY;" "TEMPLE'S TRIAL;" ETC. ETC. _NEW YORK_: WARD & DRUMMOND. [Illustration] CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. LONE ROCK LIGHTHOUSE 9 II. "SURLY JIM" 25 III. AN ODD PAIR 45 IV. LONE ROCK IN FOG AND STORM 62 V. A TERRIBLE NIGHT 85 VI. JIM'S EXPLOIT 102 VII. THE LITTLE PRINCE 122 VIII. "POOR JIM" 139 IX. HELP FROM SHORE 157 X. A WONDERFUL DAY 173 XI. THE PROMISED VISIT 195 XII. HAPPY DAYS 213 [Illustration] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "Where will you go, Jim, when they do take you ashore?" _Frontispiece_ PAGE Jim opened a door close by 33 At last, on the third day, it began to feed from his hand 81 He seemed to have received no injury at all, and began to swallow the warm milk 117 "That's our boat, I do believe!" cried Rupert 181 [Illustration] [Illustration] PAT THE LIGHTHOUSE BOY CHAPTER I _LONE ROCK LIGHTHOUSE_ "O mother, mother, mother!" cried Pat, drawing a long breath of awe and wonder, "it seems like as if we had gone straight to heaven!" "Nay, my son, not quite to heaven, for sure the blessed book tells us that there will be no more sea there;" and the woman looked out over the heaving expanse of grey-blue water with a strange soft wistfulness in her big grey eyes. One would have said to look at her then that she had known what it meant to lose those near and dear to her through the hungry cruel sea, as indeed in her young life she had done; for she was an Irish woman, and had lived all her young life beside the wild coast of Galway, and many of those who bore her name had found a last resting-place beneath the heaving tossing waves. Therefore it was small wonder if she had come to look forward to that bright land beyond the moaning waves, of which it has been expressly said that "there shall be no more sea."