Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 1: what you’re looking at

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— WITCH HAZEL; “THE SECRET OF THE LOCKET. By MRS. GEORGIE SHELDON, Author of ‘‘Geoffrey’s Victory,” ‘* Brownie’s Triumph,” ** The Foysaken Bride,” etc. CHAPYER TI. THE WRECK, On a small island, four miles distant from any land, there stands a huge liglt-house, whose weather- beaten sides have breasted the storms of nearly half a century. | Strong and rugged, it towers aloft, rising from its rocky bed to the height of sixty feet, and, like some grim sentinel, keeps watch over the wide waste of waters which stretches out on every side around it. Night by night, as soon as the sun sinks beneath the horizon, its huge lamps are swung aloft in the great tower, where, with stately revolutiosepichey acm