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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Next morning, while Joe Clark was scampering along the shore, he came across the unconscious form of a little girl about four years old, clad only in a nightdress and roped roughly to an unmarked life-belt. Joe carried her in to his grandfather, old Andrew, who worked over her for more than an hour; and at last succeeded in bringing her round.
"He saved my life when The Night Moth went down, when most men would only have bothered to save their own." "What a libel!" laughed Saltash. "Don't you know I only hung on to you because you had a life-belt on!" "Oh, naturally!" said the General. "That would be your motive. I was sorry to hear about The Night Moth, but you had a lucky escape."
"You are a stronger and a better swimmer than I am, Jeffs. I beg and pray you, then I do not order you to save my child and take him to his mother. Tell her I did my duty to the last." Tom Jeffs tied the life-belt on again, and said gruffly: "It's your orders, sir, and I'll do it if I live." At that moment as if by magic the fog began to grow light towards the south.
"She will keep me waiting, but she will come out in time," he said to himself, nervous and self-confident by turns, resting his head rather gracefully on his hand. His knowledge of womankind supported him like a life-belt, but it has been said that life-belts occasionally support their wearers upsidedown.
"Take off your life-belt," he said. "It suffocates you and hampers your movements." "Do you think I can do so without inconvenience?" asked Tartlet. "Without any inconvenience," answered Godfrey. "Now put up your fiddle, and let us take a look round." "Come on," replied the professor; "but if you don't mind, Godfrey, let us go to the first restaurant we see.
Then when they knew it was safely riding the waves, they turned to each other. "Where is your life-belt?" asked the Captain. "Get it, and put it on." "Is there a chance?" "There is always a chance. Come. We shall go together, one way or another the way God wills." They walked along the slanting deck down to where Lucy lay on the couch in the smoking room.
Her crew manned the rails with bared heads, and on the aft deck were stacked the caskets with the dead. The vessel carried on board 190 bodies, and announcement was made that 113 other bodies had been buried at sea. Everybody picked up had been in a life-belt and there were no bullet holes in any. Among those brought to port were the bodies of two women.
The sailors could see him now in the life-belt. But he would be smashed against the stones. The two women were screaming for help, though not knowing how it should come nor from whom. Could not the child at least be saved! "The boy! The boy!" A young man volunteered. To his sash he tied a line held in the hands of the men on shore.
Mr Markham, whether he heard or no, held on with great courage, and even coolness up to a point. Then of a sudden his nerve deserted him. He loosed his hold of the life-belt, and struck out for his Rescuer. Worse, as he sank in the effort and Dick gripped him, he closed and struggled.
The day was grey and cold, and Bridget having tied on her life-belt, and wrapped herself in her thickest cloak, found a seat in the shelter of the deck cabins whence the choppy sea, the destroyer hovering round them, and presently the coast of France were visible. A secret excitement filled her. What was she going to see? and what was she going to do?
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