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Updated: May 17, 2025
To approach the spot in the boat, however, was impossible without the certainty of her being dashed to pieces. "Here, hand the bight of the rope to me," shouted Eban, starting up; "I am the best swimmer among you if any one can save them I can."
He rushed on without stopping to receive the greetings of any of those gathered on the quay, and was quickly lost to sight as he made his way up the glen. "Eban seems in a strange mood," observed Simon.
My sorest thought was, as I felt myself in the breakers, that you and granny would be left without me to help you." At the moment that Nelly's arms were about her betrothed, a man in the boat, refusing the aid of others, sprang on shore. As he passed, Dame Lanreath caught a glimpse of the haggard features of Eban Cowan.
Michael did not observe the fierce look Eban cast at him as they were shoving off in the morning when the two boats pulled out of the harbour together side by side. Two with nets on board, starting from the same point, began quick as lightning to cast them out till they formed a vast circle.
Michael, again expressing such thanks as his heart prompted, returned home. Several days passed and rumours came that Eban had been seen on the way to Falmouth: and his father, who had become anxious about him, setting off, discovered that he had gone on board a large ship which had put in there to seek shelter from the gale.
Among all the fine ladies there is not one can compare with you for beauty in my eyes, and many a lad there would have been jealous of me, in spite of the white dresses and bright flowers of the girls." Nelly laughed, thinking that Eban was joking.
"But I must be grateful to him as long as I live if he finds Michael," answered Nelly, who thought her grandmother condemned Eban without sufficient cause. Had she known how he had often talked to Michael, she might have been of a different opinion.
"She and granny won't be back till late, I am afraid, and you lose your time staying here," said Michael. "Never mind, I will lend you a hand," said Eban, making his punt fast, and stepping on board the "Wild Duck." He was a fine, handsome, broad-shouldered lad, with dark eyes and hair, and with a complexion more like that of an inhabitant of the south than of an English boy.
Eban, grasping the man round the waist and shouting to those in the boat, was hauled up to her stern with his burden. Reuben, assisted by the man pulling the stroke oar, lifted the rescued man into the boat, and Eban once more dashed off to try and save the other. "Who is it? who is it?" asked the crew, with one voice, for the darkness prevented them from distinguishing his countenance.
"So I would, but it was God's will to take him, and he taught me to say, `Thy will be done; and I can say that though I grieve for his loss," answered Nelly. "But, O Eban, when you came I thought that you had brought some tidings of Michael." "No! Where is he? I did not know that he was not at home."
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