1920. The novel begins: In the living-room of the Dreamerie, his
home on Tyee Head, Hector McKaye, owner of the Tyee Lumber Company
and familiarly known as The Laird, was wont to sit in his hours of
leisure, smoking and building castles in Spain-for his son Donald.
Here he planned the acquisition of more timber and the installation
of an electric-light plant to furnish light, heat, and power to his
own town of Port Agnew; ever and anon he would gaze through the
plate-glass windows out to sea and watch for is ships to come home.
Whenever The Laird put his dreams behind him, he always looked
seaward. In the course of time, his home-bound skippers, sighting
the white house on the headland and knowing that The Laird was apt
to be up there watching, formed the habit of doing something that
pleased their owner mightily. When the northwest trades held steady
and true, and while the tide was still at the flood, they would
scorn the services of the tug that went out to meet them and come
ramping into the bight, all their white sails set and the glory of
the sun upon them; as they swept past, far below The Laird, they
would dip his house-flag-a burgee, scarlet-edged, with a fir tree
embroidered in green on a field of white-the symbol to the world
that here was a McKaye ship. And when the house-flag fluttered
half-way to the deck and climbed again to the masthead, the soul of
Hector McKaye would thrill. Due to the age and scarcity of the
original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty or faded. See
other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
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