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Miss Merrivale seated herself upon a bench benevolently placed on the landing. "They sit down here, of course," she responded. "This is a sort of life-saving station," he remarked, seating himself beside her. "Oh, Mr. Rangely, how awfully funny you are." "It's my trade; I have to be to earn my living. Now you and I are the only survivors from a wreck." "Alone on a desert island?"
Offers of relief, which were made by the Chicago Association of Commerce and the city of Peoria to Cairo, on April 5th, were accepted. The Chicago organization offered eight boats and sixty men to man them. From Peoria came word that a steamboat equipped for life-saving purposes was waiting for a call to Cairo.
Wherever you're going, it's a long drive. Let's go inside and dry our feet while they're hitching up. Which is your house?" The proprietor of the Life-Saving Station indicated that building with his thumb, and told his daughter of the white muslin dress to kindle a fire in the stove.
"He's bad?" Slip said, in alarm. "Poison's workin', Doc?" "Mighty bad!" There was nothing for it. Doctor Grell's night of pleasure had turned into one of life-saving and effort. He sent Slip over to drag away one of the young men from his game, and they rigged up two square trunks and a waterproof tarpaulin into an operating table.
Back through the wind and rain they walked, with half a score of others. They reached the life-saving station, tired and spent from their struggle through the storm. "You can go back to Bailey," said George, as Larry sat down inside the warm and cozy living-room of the station to rest. "He may need you." "I thought I could help here," replied Larry.
If you wish to be kind and good to her, go!" "I cannot!" he exclaimed, his pent feelings bursting forth. "I cannot go!" "You will not be so selfish and so cruel as to increase the horror of the wreck that is sure to come," she said, drawing back. "You know, Countess, of the life-saving crews who draw from the wrecks of ships lives that were hopelessly lost?
Well, I declare, we did land on a friendly shore." Just as Mr. Bingham said, the life-saving work turned out to be a social affair, for there was a great time greeting Nellie's father and Hal's uncle. "Wasn't it perfectly splendid that Nellie and her mother were here!" declared Dorothy. "And Hal and his father, too," put in Nan. "It is just like a story in a book."
When the story of her adventure reached New York, the Life-Saving Benevolent Association sent her a gold medal with an appropriate inscription, and a request that she would send back a receipt in her own name. As she did not know how to write, Captain Dorr hit upon the expedient of having her photograph taken with the medal in her hand, and sent that in lieu of her autograph.
The little brown life-saving station was huddled between two sand-hills. There was a small stable and a henhouse and yard just behind it. Captain Davis, rawboned and brown-faced, waved a welcome to them from the side door. "Spied you comin', Eri," he said in a curiously mild voice, that sounded odd coming from such a deep chest. "I'm mighty glad to see you, too? Jump down and come right in.
A handful of silver to the snake catcher and his boy sent them away delighted, while the wounded mongoose, having greedily sucked the blood of the dead cobra, wandered away in triumph, creeping on its belly into the rank grass in search of the life-saving herb which it alone can find, to cure the venom-inflamed wounds of the deadly "naja."
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