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Agatha had also written to Magdalen, very briefly, to assure her of her safety and thankfulness, and to say she could not leave Wilfred till more efficient care arrived, or till she had means to come back with. She was evidently too busy over her patient to have much possibility of writing, even if she had paper, which seemed to be scarce at Corncastle.
The captain, however, succeeded in lowering another boat, and putting into it, as he trusted, the few remaining women, the Bishop, and most of the men. This was, of course, that which had safely reached Corncastle, and of which he only now heard.
Lady Merrifield could not leave Phyllis in such a crisis of suspense, and Sir Jasper was hardly fit for such a journey, so that his wife was much relieved when her brother, General Mohun, came to Clipstone, and undertook to hasten out to Corncastle, with money and appliances, including a nurse. "Oh, Reggie, always good at need! I hardly dare to send my good old Halfpenny !" "No, Mamma, send me.
Captain Miller, of the Afra, had slight hurts, which had been looked to before he should take the train for London; and Blaine had waited to tell his story before pursuing his voyage to Bristol, both, indeed, to hear the report of the patient, and likewise to collect the news of the few who had been landed at Corncastle, to the great relief of Captain Miller; but of the first boat there were no tidings, and Blaine thought there was little probability that it had not sunk or been dashed against the crags of the savage coast.
The rocks were sought out in maps, and found to be specks lying between County Antrim and Scotland no doubt terrible in their reality. Another day brought something more definite. It WAS the Afra, "wrecked in the fog of October 11th. Boats got off." That was all; but a day's post brought letters, of which the fullest was from Dolores: "CORNCASTLE, LARNE, CO. ANTRIM, IRELAND, October 12.
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