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"When I rose to the surface," he said, slowly "and saw the ship drawing away in the darkness and heard the cries on board, I swam as strongly as I could towards it. I was weighed down by my clothes, and I had also struck my head going overboard, and I felt that every moment was my last, when I suddenly bumped up against the life-belt.
"I've spoken to have the coast-guards look out for him," said the old man. "He may come ashore, and I know he'd be pleased to be put in the churchyard decent." "I'm sure he would," said Fraser. "I suppose there's no chance of his having been picked up. I slung a life-belt overboard." Captain Barber shook his head.
The Skipper had stood watching all, with a scared white lace, but he had not uttered a cry, for there were two people with him, in whom he had the firmest faith; and now, amidst the roaring of the waves, he stood, and listened to the angry scene which followed. For Tom Jells had unfastened his life-belt. "Put that on again, instantly!" cried the Captain. "Can't, your honour. You ain't got one."
Up above the clamour of questions shouted from all sides as the crazed people flocked behind the messenger of hope, rose the voice of Morris Shine. "Land ahoy! Ahoy-yoy-yoy!" he yelled over and over again, his chin raised like that of a dog baying at the moon. Every person on deck was either carrying a life-belt or was already encased in one. Grim orders of the night just past.
"A gentle and confiding nature, characterized by a penchant for escapade, is denoted by the joy-wheel at the base of Halley's Comet. And so we come to the life-belt. This my word, this is all right! Unrivalled for resistance to damp and wear, will last three to six times as long as ordinary paint I mean life of extraordinary durability. Now for the heart-line.
"The way the band kept playing was a noble thing. I heard it first while we were working wireless, when there was a rag-time tune for us, and the last I saw of the band, when I was floating out in the sea, with my life-belt on, it was still on deck playing 'Autumn. How they ever did it I cannot imagine.
Blind, not knowing what he was about, he adjusted the life-belt to the boy's tiny form, picked him up like a bundle of laths, walked astern, and threw him overboard. He saw him floating there for a second, till the crest of a great wave caught him. It had all been the matter of minutes. The crowd on the point of the Breakwater saw the Mayflower drifting off entirely at the mercy of the storm.
I have only one method of dealing with uninvited ones." The two men suddenly stepped forward. Shopland made no protest, attempted no struggle. They lifted him off his feet as though he were a baby, and a moment later there was a splash in the water. They threw a life-belt after him. "Always humane, you see," Sir Timothy remarked, as he leaned over the side. "Ah!
Perhaps I may say that in every difficulty, patience is a life-belt. I beg of you to be patient still. 'Mr. Amble, I shall think you foolish, said the spouse, with a nod of more than emphasis. My dear, you have only to decide, was the meek reply.
I tossed the immigrant girl her life-belt, and as though I had known Lady Moya all my life I took her by the hand and dragged her after me down the deck. "You come with me!" I commanded. I found that I was trembling and that a weight of anxiety of which I had not been conscious had been lifted. I found I was still holding her hand and pressing it in my own. "Thank God!" I said.
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