In the evening, Sters played cards. Among those present was Thomas Harvey, a young man stuck in Liss due to a serious illness. During the game, Harvey heard a woman's voice, clearly saying: "Running on the waves." And the other players did not hear anything.

A day earlier, from the window of the tavern, Garvey watched as a girl stepped off the steamer, as if gifted with a secret to subjugate circumstances and people. The next morning, Thomas went to find out where the stranger who had hit him had stopped, and found out that her name was Biche Seniel.

For some reason, he saw the connection between the stranger and yesterday’s incident behind the cards. This hunch got stronger when he saw a ship with light contours in the port and on board its inscription: “Running along the waves”.

Captain Geuze, an unfriendly and harsh man, refused to take Harvey as a passenger without the permission of the owner — a certain Brown.

With Brown's note, the captain received Garvey almost kindly, introduced his assistants to Sincright and Butler, who made a good impression, unlike the rest of the crew, which looked more like rabble than sailors.

During the voyage, Thomas learned that the ship was built by Ned Seniel. Seniel Harvey already saw the portrait of his daughter Bice on the captain’s cabin table. Gauze bought the ship when Ned went broke.

In Dagon, three women boarded. Harvey did not want to take part in the fun that had begun with the captain, and he remained at his place. After some time, hearing the screams of one of the women and the threat of a drunken captain, Harvey intervened and, defending himself, knocked the captain down with a blow to the jaw.

In a fury, Geuze ordered him put in a boat and put it into the open sea. When the boat was already carried from the side, a woman wrapped from head to toe deftly jumped to Harvey. Under a hail of ridicule, they set sail from the ship.

When the stranger spoke, Harvey realized that it was this voice he had heard at Sters' party. The girl named Frezie Grant and told Harvey to head south. There he will be picked up by a ship going to Gel-Gyu. Taking his word from him not to tell anyone about her, including Bice Seniel, Fresi Grant went down to the water and carried off into the distance along the waves. By noon Harvey really met the "Dive", going to Gel-Gyu. Here on the ship, Harvey heard again about Freesy Grant. Once, in a completely calm sea, a rising wave lowered her father’s frigate near the extraordinary beauty of the island, to which it was not possible to approach. Freesy, however, insisted, and then the young lieutenant casually noticed that the girl was so thin and light that she could run across the water. In response, she jumped into the water and easily ran along the waves. Then fog fell, and when it dissipated, no island or girl was visible. They say she began to be shipwrecked.

Harvey listened to the legend with special attention, but this was noticed only by Daisy, Proctor's niece. Finally, the Dive approached Gel-Gyu. The city was dominated by carnival. Harvey went along with a motley crowd and found himself near a marble figure, on the pedestal of which was the inscription: "Running along the waves."

The city, it turns out, was founded by Williams Hobs, who crashed a hundred years ago in the surrounding waters. And Frezi Grant saved him, having run along the waves and named the course that led Hobs to the then deserted shore, where he settled.

Then a woman called out to Harvey and said that a woman in a yellow dress with brown fringe was waiting for him at the theater. Without a doubt that it was Bice Seniel, Harvey hurried to the theater. But the woman dressed, as was said, was Daisy. She was disappointed that Harvey called her name Biche, and quickly left. A minute later, Harvey saw Bice Seniel. She brought the money and was now looking for a meeting with Geuze to buy the ship. Harvey managed to find out in which hotel Geuze was staying. The next morning he went there with Butler. They went up to the captain. Geuze lay with a shot head.

People came running. Suddenly they brought Bice Seniel. It turned out that on the eve of the captain was very drunk. In the morning a young lady came to him, and then a shot rang out. The girl was detained on the stairs. But then Butler spoke and admitted that it was he who killed Geuze.

He had his own account with a fraudster. It turns out that "Running on the Waves" was carrying a load of opium, and Butler owed a significant part of the income, but the captain deceived him.

He didn’t find Geza in the room, but when he appeared with the lady, Butler hid in the closet. But the meeting ended in an ugly scene, and in order to get rid of Geuze, the girl jumped out of the window onto the landing, where she was later detained. When Butler got out of the closet, the captain attacked him, and Butler had no choice but to kill him.

Having learned the truth about the ship, Beach ordered to auction off the defiled vessel. Before breaking up, Harvey told Bice about his meeting with Frezi Grant. Biche suddenly began to insist that his story was a legend. Harvey thought that Daisy would have regarded his story with complete confidence, and regretted that Daisy was engaged.

Some time has passed. Once in Lege, Harvey met Daisy. She broke up with the groom, and in her story about this there was no regret. Soon, Harvey and Daisy got married. Their house on the beach was visited by Dr. Filatr.

He spoke about the fate of the vessel “Running on the Waves”, the decayed hull of which he found near a deserted island. Just as under what circumstances the crew left the ship, it remained a mystery.

Saw Filatre and Bice Seniel. She was already married and handed a short letter to Harvey with a wish for happiness.

Daisy, she said, expected the letter to recognize Harvey’s right to see what he wants. Daisy Garvey says on behalf of everyone: “Thomas Harvey, you are right. Everything was as you told. Frezy Grant! You exist! Answer me! ”

"Good evening friends! - we heard from the sea. “I'm in a hurry, I'm running ...”