A Memory Of The Southern Seas / 1904

full head of steam, and with her stout, broad frame quivering and throbbing and panting, tugged away at the giant hulk of the stranded ship; and the ship's own

g and two stokers, stripped to their waists, with the perspiration streaming down their roasting bodies, answered with a yell-and then, lying we

bridge with him, her face aglow, and her ha

speed,

en to get the ship on an even keel by cutting adrift the lashings of several hundred barrels of cement (part of the cargo) which were piled up on the starboard side of the main deck, and letting them plunge overbo

sel a big cant to starboard, had answered perfectly; for, high as was the tide that night, the Dolphin, though so powerful, could not have moved a ship of 1,500 tons with her keel still p

en towed round to a little bay just abreast of

Lindley?" sh

ready

n le

wn, and the flaked out cable roared as it flew through the

ley?" cried Leste

lve,

ood holding ground and there is plent

s,

a bit of go

Mrs. Lester is on the tug

rned to his wife. "Do

to the westward, but turned

over there.... Ah, see, the

is night glas

re and the Deal Island light," he said, and

brook Castle, "there is a ship ashore about four miles away from

dley, "Mrs. Lester is bringing

I'll go and see what I can do.

as rain

k of the tug, and Lucy, at a nod from her husband, turned on "

was the

There is a ship ashore about four miles away. S

g through the water at her top speed-eleve

eegnals first?

Patterson,

fireman loon ae mine, Rafferty, said ye'd bring us mair guid luck." Th

towards where the ghastly glare of the last blue light had been seen. Twenty minutes later, Lester caught s

mer a

r from crashing into a boat crowded with men; a second boat was close astern of the first. They came alongsid

ip. We were caught in a squall yesterday, and thr

ed Lester to his own men, "I'm

f his best me

, boys. Mr

bin, the Dolphin went ahead, and in a quarter of an hour, Bailey

r into the little bay where the Braybrook

p to the Harvest Maid, Harvester, and his own last command, the Harves

r masts?" he said to the un

have righted the ship if my crew had stuck to me. But after being eighteen ho

hip to-day-the Braybrook Castle. You have nothing further to do with the Ha

. "Yes, I know that. And yo

is she

h ￡80,000. We loaded a g

for Rodway." "Do you know him?"

arvest Home. Now come ashore. My wi