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Updated: May 2, 2025
The little measure of horn, which had been found floating among the debris of the wrecked gig, was carefully inserted upon its string, drawn out filled with the sweet wine, and then passed from lip to lip, the pretty lips of the Lilly Lalee being the first to come in contact with it.
It was only after both had been asleep for many hours after midnight, in fact when Lalee was herself sleeping less soundly, and when a snore, more prolonged and prodigious than any that had preceded it, came swelling through the nostrils of the sea-cook, it was only then that the young girl was awakened.
The utterance was merely mechanical; and as it escaped from his lips, the sailor-lad rushed towards the edge of the raft, and placed himself in an attitude to plunge into the water, with the design of swimming to the rescue of Lalee.
A cry arose, "Back to the Catamaran!" and in a score of seconds the boy-sailor was swimming alongside the A.B. for the raft; while the Coromantee, with Lilly Lalee hoisted upon his left shoulder, was cleaving the water in the same direction. Another minute and all four were aboard the embarkation they had so lately abandoned, once more saved from the perils of the deep!
The absence of the captain, with five others who had accompanied him in his gig, has been explained. The ex-cook, the English sailor and sailor-boy, with the cabin passenger, Lilly Lalee, have also been accounted for; but there were several others aboard the big raft, on its first starting "to sea," that were no longer to be seen amidst the crowd still occupying this ungainly embarkation.
The Catamaran, left without control, luffed suddenly round beam-end to the wind; the boom obeyed the impulse of the breeze; and Lilly Lalee, uplifted upon its end, was brushed off from the craft, and jerked far out upon the blue bosom of the ocean! The cry came from little William, as the Portuguese girl, lifted on the end of the boom, was pitched far out into the sea.
But as I did not want the clothes so much as a look at them, I soon got the better of this difficulty. "I don't want them to-night," said I. "I only wanted to make sure you had them. What night were these people here?" "Tuesday night, velly late; nicee man, nicee lalee. She wantee talk. Nicee man he pullee she; I no hear if muchee stasch.
There was trouble on his mind before going to sleep, an uneasiness of no ordinary kind. It was not any fear for his own fate. He was a true English tar in miniature, and could not have been greatly distressed with any apprehensions of a purely selfish nature. Those that harassed him were caused by his consideration for another, for Lilly Lalee.
We say had been seen: for, after swallowing the brace of albacores, the voracious monster had suddenly disappeared, either by diving deep down into the sea, or shooting off to some distant point. Little William and Lalee looked everywhere, first astern, where the swordsman had made the display of his skill; then on both sides; and, finally, ahead.
There was no gig in sight, nor boat of any kind! Only some floating fragments; among which could be distinguished a cask or two, with a scattering of loose boards, oars, handspikes, and articles of apparel. Among these were struggling two youthful forms, recognisable as little William and Lilly Lalee. A quick transformation took place in the tableau.
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