The Winged Witch of the Sea

This 1897 *Dime Library* issue presents "The Winged Witch of the Sea" by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham, a maritime adventure serial. The narrative opens with fisherman Carter Hayes rescuing a shipwrecked boy from the sea, whom he adopts. Ten years later, the boy—now the skilled young sailor Dudley Dash—sails across a Maine bay and encounters a young girl being abducted by a smuggler on an island hideout. Dash shoots the attacker dead and rescues the girl, bringing her safely across the rough waters. The story shifts to reveal Dash as a university student who witnesses the kidnapping of a young woman named Louise Raynor by ruffians on a clifftop. Dash defeats both attackers, hurling one over the cliff, but incurs the bitter enmity of Louise's companion, Paul Dunstan, who resents Dash's intervention and social station as a fisherman's son.