A boy whom an old fisherman has rescued from the ocean is known only as the "sea brat." His bringing up by the hermit of the cliff has been scarcely human, and he is strangely primitive and uncouth. Discovering that his guardian is a miser...See moreA boy whom an old fisherman has rescued from the ocean is known only as the "sea brat." His bringing up by the hermit of the cliff has been scarcely human, and he is strangely primitive and uncouth. Discovering that his guardian is a miser, the sea brat is curiously affected by the glimpse of abundant gold. When he falls passionately in love with the fairest of the fisher girls, all kinds of wild dreams besiege his imagination. Late one afternoon, out at sea, some fishermen see the hermit's cottage in flames and row to the rescue. They find the old man half dead, the trap door in the floor torn from its hinges, and a dark figure outside glides into the scrub. Later they trace the culprit. They find him on the beach, holding out to the girl he loves two handsful of gold. Seizing him, they shove him into a boat and sot him adrift. But all this proves to be but a horrible dream from which the priest of the village awakes the "brat," who has fallen asleep on the shore in the path of the tide. Going back to the cottage together, they find the old miser dead. Written by
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