THE COMING WAVE;

OR, THE

HIDDEN TREASURE OF HIGH ROCK

BY

OLIVER OPTIC,

AUTHOR OF "YOUNG AMERICA ABROAD," "THE ARMY AND NAVY SERIES," "THEWOODVILLE STORIES," "THE STARRY FLAG SERIES," "THE BOAT CLUB STORIES,""THE LAKE SHORE SERIES," "THE UPWARD AND ONWARD SERIES," ETC., ETC.

WITH THIRTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS.

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874,

By WILLIAM T. ADAMS,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

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MY YOUNG FRIEND

ELMER ELLSWORTH HOLBROOK,

OF MEDWAY, MASS.,

This Book

IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

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The Yacht Club Series.

1. LITTLE BOBTAIL; or, The Wreck of the Penobscot.

2. THE YACHT CLUB; or, The Young Boat Builder.

3. MONEY MAKER; or, The Victory of the Basilisk.

4. THE COMING WAVE; or, The Hidden Treasure of High Rock.

5. THE DORCAS CLUB; or, Our Girls Afloat.

6. OCEAN BORN; or, The Cruise of the Clubs.

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PREFACE.

"The Coming Wave" is the fourth volume of the Yacht Club Series, and isan entirely independent story. Though the incidents are located onPenobscot Bay and relate largely to boats and yachting, the charactershave not before been presented; but some of them will again beintroduced in the subsequent volumes of the series. There is some breezysailing in the story, and Penobscot Bay would not be properly describedwithout the dense fog, upon which the turn of events depends in one ofthe chapters; nor is such a hurricane as that with which the storybegins an unknown occurrence in these waters. Whatever interest thevolume may possess, however, does not wholly depend upon the experiencein fog and gale of the hero and his friends, for the plot is as much ofthe land as of the sea.

Leopold Bennington and Stumpy are the chief characters. They are bothworking boys, who earn their own living, and do nothing more surprisingthan other young men have done before them. They are fastidiouslyhonest, and strictly upright, though they make mistakes like other humanbeings. They try to do their whole duty, sometimes under very difficultcircumstances, and if other boys may not do exactly as they did incertain cases, they may imitate Leopold and Stumpy in having[Pg 7] a hig

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THE YACHT CLUB SERIES.