The Beach of Dreams

urry; every boat was provisioned, and the water casks left nothing to be desired, there were frequ

lap on the extinction of the electric light. The port quarter-boat into which the girl had been flung had two men in her and was lowered away by Prince Selm, the doctor and the first officer; panic had herded the rest of the hands towards the pinnace and forward boats, and the

impact to explosion las

short-handed for the size of the boat, they would have been stoved; as it was they were nearly wrecked by a balk of timber from the explosion. It mis

ther. The bow oar shouted to t

mpard,

od! Listen, ther

boat bumped on something that

ckness from here and from there. The men tried to locate them and rowed now in this direction, now in that-always wrong. Once a voice sudden and

entered a mist patch-nothing. The voices to port and starboard were ceasing, one by one-being blotted out. Then silence fell, broken only by

as the lookout. Sail

man seem

al out as they hove her in. Let

but we're out

e got. Well, there's no use rowing, the

bottom boards. Ballasted so the boat rode easy. They lay like shiverin

ing-but we've grub a

s are all rig

nd then La Touche began in

o lights shewing, snoring along asleep. Then I shouted. The bridge had seen her too and put the engines full speed ahead. They'd mistaken the dis

Well, they're all gone a hundred fathoms deep and here we are drifting about

she's

ugh by the way she's lyi

ast over. She ballasted the boat, and for

classes, the northerners and southerners. The man from

repeating themselves, cursing the "hooker," the Bridge and the steer

hing to do, and these men blunt to life and sea-hardened so that to them all things came in the hour's work, nodd