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Updated: June 29, 2025
As soon as she heard the hiss of the air in the helmet, she screwed on the bull's-eye, and our diver was as much shut off from surrounding atmosphere as if he had been twenty fathoms under the sea. Then she went to where the pumpers were at work, and taking the air-pipe in one hand and the life-line in the other, awaited signals. These were soon sent from the verandah.
He was thinking of a group of children playing on the bank of a canal. To the accompaniment of the Colonel's protests they fixed a belt on him, to which was attached the life-line. He walked along the sloping wooden projection that is used as a landing stage for pleasure skiffs, walked until the water splashed over him. Then he dived into the boiling surf.
Charley came to a halt and uncoiled the rawhide rope which he had taken from the canoe. He paid it out, and passed one end of it to his boss. He fastened the other end about his waist. Half-way down its length Bill took possession of it. It was a guiding life-line so that those behind him should not lose the trail. Then the upward struggle began.
The smaller boats had been carried away by the waves; it was in vain to think of launching the long-boat; the only chance of escape in case the ship should not be immediately dashed to pieces on touching the rocks, was to establish a communication with the land by means of a life-line almost the last resort for passing between the shore and a stranded vessel.
However, he recovered himself smartly when the water was gone, and came along hand over fist, snorting and cursing in wonderful style. Meanwhile, though I kept a firm hold of the life-line, I took care to stand where the inroads of water were not heavy, waiting impatiently for the door to open.
I'm afraid my life-line isn't strong enough to bear me up under such a disappointment." "I'm afraid I can't, Mr. Harper," answered Dorothy firmly. "There are enough waiting now to keep the palmist busy until the entertainment begins, and after that you must take your chance with the others." In the depths of her heart Dorothy was glad to turn away Uncle Jerry.
Farther and farther it swept; his patron saint, caution, beckoning frantically from the receding shore, was miles behind. "Judith!" he said, and he scarce recognized his own voice. "Judith!" he struggled as a swimmer in a drowning clutch. Then his patron saint threw him a life-line and he saved the situation. "Judith!" he said, a third time, and now he knew his voice.
They had mission hymns, and the only one that went well was "Throw out the life-line," which is really a rather ghastly thing. We had short Matins, and I preached as I had arranged. The men sat stiffly and looked at me. I don't know why, but I couldn't work up any enthusiasm and it all seemed futile. Afterwards I tried to talk to this Wesleyan corporal.
Where is your life-line?" asked Harriet of Miss Elting. "I threw it off when I went into the cabin." "Get back! Stay there until I call you, or " Harriet did not finish the sentence, but the guardian understood and turned back into the cabin, where she did her best to comfort the panic-stricken Camp Girls. "Whoop!" shrieked Jane. The "Sue" righted with a violent jolt.
While the seer turned to look rather resentfully at him, he climbed up this slender life-line, like a man whom sharks are pursuing. "It was not a fox that you saw, at all; it was a wolf! So excited were you that your eyes were deceitful. It was a wolf, and it was nearest the Norman. A blind man could see what that means."
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