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Updated: May 19, 2025
Toward midday a sea-plane which had been releasing depth-bombs and hovering eagerly above the wide iridescent and spreading stain, sheered shoreward and shot along the coast. There was a dead man afloat in a cave, rocking there rather peacefully in his life-suit or at least they supposed him to be dead.
Then he lifted his cap, as she turned and looked for him, and sauntered off to where his boat and station should have been had not the U-boat shells annihilated boat and rail and deck. "What a devil of a mess!" he said to a petty officer near him. A young doctor smoking a cigarette surveyed his own life-suit and the clumsy apparel of his neighbours with unfeigned curiosity!
And, as his life-suit fell about him, so seemed to fall the heavy weight of dread like a shroud, dropping at his feet. And he stepped clear took his first free step toward her as though between them there were no questions, no barriers, nothing but this living, magic light which bathed them both.
Destroyers and launches from some of the cruisers were busy amid the wreckage where here, on a spar, some stunned form clung like a limpet, and there, a-bob in the curling seas, a swimmer in his life-suit tossed under the wintry sky. There were men on rafts, too, and several clinging to hatches; there was not much loss of life, considering.
An odd sense of fear seized him and he dressed and adjusted his clumsy life-suit. For the ship was in the danger zone, now, and orders had been given, and dawn was not far off. Perhaps it was already day! he could not tell in his dim cabin.
Quick, please, I'll help you!" Dazed, shaken, still mazed by the magic of his dream, not yet clear of its beauty and its passion, he stumbled to his feet in the obscurity. And he felt her chilled hand aiding him. "Eve I thought " "What?" "I thought your name was Eve " he stammered. "I've been dreaming." Then was a silence as he fumbled stupidly with his clothing and life-suit.
A sharp, cold wind began to blow through the strange and sudden darkness. He heard her voice calling his name felt his numbed body shaken, lifted his head from his arms and sat upright on his bunk in the dim chill of his cabin. Miss Erith stood beside his bed, wearing her life-suit. "Kay! Are you awake? "Yes." "Then put on your life-suit. Our destroyers are firing at something.
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