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The Toilers of the Sea

By VICTOR HUGO Condensation by JAMES B. CONNOLLY ONE Christmas morning, Deruchette, a charming young girl, wrote the name of a man, Gilliatt, in the snow. Gilliatt, seeing the name and knowing who wrote it, never forgot.

Gilliatt was a young man of doubtful birth and unpopular disposition who lived by himself in an old wreck of a house in St. Sampson in the Isle of Guernsey. He was a fisherman; also a carpenter, a wheelwright, a sort of engineer when need be. He was also a dreamer of dreams.