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Such a respite was mine to-day. The best of nights and days of toil is that there comes a twilight in which fatigued eyes see clear. I said it did not matter how you do about your marriage. Time may right you in a way I cannot know. I said it did not matter if you are not righted in this, there being so much that never rights itself. Both hope and despair were followed by a calm of neutrality.
Jack's face grew strangely serious. "I shall be glad for her sake;" he replied, then added: "Sometimes, Miss Gladden, wrongs are righted only at a terrible cost, and what seems to you like the closing of a peaceful drama, may prove a tragedy to those who are concerned in it."
No wrong can be righted by another wrong." "Can any wrong ever be really righted?" she demanded bitterly. "We have to pay for our mistakes each in our turn." He himself had paid to the uttermost farthing. "Is it a very heavy price, Nan?" She turned her face away a little. "It will be . . . higher than I expected," she acknowledged slowly. "Well, then, pay up. Don't make Roger pay for your blunder.
Don't you see how she drags us over? Cut away, or we shall sink with her." They cut away, and the Rose, released from the strain, shook her feathers on the wave-crest like a freed sea-gull, while all men held their breaths. Suddenly the glorious creature righted herself, and rose again, as if in noble shame, for one last struggle with her doom.
The two elders were making various absurd inquiries, when Richard sent his chair to the floor, crying, "What a muddle you're in, Rip! You're mixing half-a-dozen stories together. The old lady I told you about was old Dame Bakewell, and the dispute was concerning a neighbour of hers who encroached on her garden, and I said I'd pay the money to see her righted!"
Presently, however, we partially righted; but the ballast still retaining its place to larboard, we lay so much along that it was useless to think of working the pumps, which indeed we could not have done much longer in any case, as our hands were entirely raw with the excessive labour we had undergone, and were bleeding in the most horrible manner.
You must not think, from this statement, that Mary Louise was prone to suspect everyone she met; it was only on rare occasions she instinctively felt there was more beneath the surface of an occurrence than appeared to the casual observer, and then, if a wrong might be righted or a misunderstanding removed but only in such event she eagerly essayed to discover the truth.
I don't reckon on my nights here." "Hexford, help me to a peep. I've got a difficult job before me and I need all the aid I can get." "Oh, there's no trouble about that! Walk boldly along; he won't notice " "He won't notice?" "No, he notices nothing but what comes from the sick room." "I see." Sweetwater's jaw had fallen, but it righted itself at this last word. "Listening, eh?"
But the next righted them as suddenly, lifting them high on its crest and dashing them headlong towards the one spot where help awaited them. Before they rose again a deft cast from Armstrong had sent the rope across the bows within Roger's reach, while the doctor, with the other end lashed round his body, was running at full speed towards the calmer water of the cove.
A dozen men, however, seized the boat and quickly righted her; again the oarsmen sprang in, and having been pushed out until the water reached the necks of the men who ran beside her, she was vigorously pulled beyond the breakers. The excitement was now intense, not only on the beach, but in the hotels near the spot, and the shore was black with people.
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