02446cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000190011324500240013226400510015630000470020733600260025433700260028033800360030649000700034250000310041250800540044352012430049753400710174065300180181165300250182965300320185465300360188670000180192283000700194085600430201099900190205377810UtSlPG20260610134813.0mcr n260607r20261930utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCarlton, W. E.14aThe coast guardsman 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from the February, 1930 issue of The Blue Book magazine.  aRelease date is 2026-01-29  aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)  aThe coast guardsman by W. E. Carlton. It is an adventure short story written in the early 20th century. Set on Cape Cod during the rum-running era, it follows a young surfman whose courage and sense of duty drive him to confront smugglers and prove himself worthy of leadership.

Aubrey Sears, a capable but slighted surfman at Santuck station, is undermined when Jansen, the swaggering Number One, claims credit for wounding a smuggler from the schooner Seabright and paints Aubrey as a coward. Pushed by his sweetheart Mamie and a wary neighbor’s tip, Aubrey checks Howesport harbor on a foggy night and clashes with the Holway lobstermen, whose muffled-oar landing escalates into a brutal brawl; bloodied but unbroken, he even floors the hulking “Bloody Nathan.” Captain Cole arrives with the crew, reveals he never backed Jansen’s story, and that while Aubrey fought, the guards found a tube of opium hidden among the “lobsters,” tying the landing to Seabright and casting suspicion on Jansen’s push to end the harbor patrol. Cole vows to pursue the case in court and promises to elevate Aubrey to the top spot at Santuck, effectively placing station authority in his hands. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cChicago, Illinois: The McCall Company, 1930  aShort stories  aSmuggling -- Fiction  aCape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction  aCoastal surveillance -- Fiction1 aMolt, William 0aProduced from the February, 1930 issue of The Blue Book magazine.40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77810  c118530d118530