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Updated: May 31, 2025
On the brave life-savers came, while Rex and Roy barked in mad welcome; and Freddy's clear, boyish cry, "Here, here! Daddy and I are here!" pierced through the darkness and turmoil of the storm. On they came, strong and fearless, God's angels surely, thought Freddy, though in strange mortal guise. And one, whose muffling sou'wester had been flung loose in his eager haste, led all the rest.
The anchor that held the rope which passed over the "shears" seemed to be pulling out of the sand packed around it. "Come on, men!" cried the captain. "Take a brace now, and we'll have 'em ashore in a jiffy!" "But she's slipping!" cried a grizzled seaman. "She can't hold any longer. The whole business is going!" "She can't go until we git 'em ashore!" yelled the captain of the life-savers.
I had to call on Jeeves to rally round with one of those life-savers of his. From breakfast on I felt like a bag-snatcher at a railway station. I had to hang about waiting for the parcel to be put on the hall table, and it wasn't put. Uncle Willoughby was a fixture in the library, adding the finishing touches to the great work, I supposed, and the more I thought the thing over the less I liked it.
He was in the nick of time. A large locker in the main compartment gave him refuge just as Pauline and Summers reached the room. "The pumps are our life-savers," said Summers, as he directed Pauline down the second ladder. "If they go wrong when we're under water we can't come up." "And what do you do then?" asked Pauline innocently. "Oh, just-stay down."
The Sovereign whistled its commendation, while ashore the spectators and life-savers stood breathless. A stealthy wave slashed the oar, almost pulling his shoulder from its socket, but he kept the oar. Aye, he kept it and cursed the wave that sought to take it away. On, on, as determined, as indomitable as the elements. A wave cut the boat full. It skidded on its side and righted.
The sea was so wild it was impossible to send out the life-savers' boats, so the guards were making ready the breeches buoy. "They are going to shoot the line out now," explained Hal to Bert, as the two-wheel car with the mortar or cannon was dragged down to the ocean's edge. Instantly there shot out to sea a ball of thin cord. To this cord was fastened a heavy rope or cable.
Butsy can't go to sleep 'n' he gets wild. "'What th' hell are you laughin' at? he says. 'If you don't cut this out 'n' let me get my rest I'll quit the game tomorrow! "It gets so I don't dare look at Peewee fur fear we'll get started 'n' Butsy'll quit. "At a burg called Mansfield I finds a good bunch of live ones 'n' we grabs off three hundred life-savers.
"And you swam from the Cedars, Mr. Black," exclaimed the guard. "No wonder you got cramps." An hour later the millionaire was walking the beach looking for the life-savers. He finally spied Hal. "Here, there, you boy," he called, and Hal came in to the edge, but hardly recognized the man in street clothes. "I want your name," demanded the stranger.
"Robinson Crusoe was a man who was shipwrecked on an island, and he lived there a long time with his man Friday. We can play that." "But we aren't shipwrecked," Sue said. Living near the sea the children had often heard of shipwrecks, and had once seen one, when a big sail boat had beep blown up on the beach and broken to pieces by the heavy waves. The sailors were taken off by the life-savers.
Neville's side, Dan following in dumb bewilderment. The sick man lay in the old Captain's room, whither, at his own request, the life-savers had borne him the previous evening. His eyes, deep-sunken in their sockets, were closed, his features rigid.
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