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Updated: May 5, 2025
'Then hurry on the rocket-cart! she said as she sprang to the saddle, and swept out on the rough track that ran by the cliffs, following in bold curves the windings of the shore. The white Arab seemed to know that his speed was making for life.
Just at that moment a great cheer arose, for the rocket-cart, drawn by the men of the Coast-Guard, was seen rattling over the downs towards them. Anxiety for the fate of the doomed brig was now changed into eager hope for the rescue of her crew.
At last the rocket-cart arrived, and with it many horsemen and such men and women as could run across country with equal speed to the horses labouring by the longer road. The rescued man was still senseless, but that alone did not seem to cause anxiety to the Doctor, who hurried him at once into the prepared room.
Some good might be effected if she could get a trumpet; and there were trumpets in the rocket-cart. Light could be had must be had if all the fences round the headland had to be gathered for a bonfire! There was not a moment to be lost. She ran to the rocket-cart, and got a trumpet from the man in charge. Then she ran to where she had left her horse.
In the rocket-cart bring pitch and tar and oil, and anything that will flame. Stay! she cried to the chief boatman. 'Give me some blue lights! His answer chilled her: 'I'm sorry, my lady, but they are all used. There are the last of them burning now. We have burned them ever since that man began to swim ashore.
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