She succeeded in pulling him in just as he was being caught in the swirl of & great sea, Yet it was the ladies who kept up their spirits best of all. It was the ladies who, when those three vessels were sighted, and were seen to fade mie the distance the frenzied shoute and wild wavings of the without making any signal in response to
stranded company—it was the ladies who succeeded in restoring comparative calm. The men found themselves cursing and reviling in their futile rage; the ladies, although they cried, were prompt with the consoling suggestions that the vessels, seeing the hopelessness of attempting to send succouring hosts through such seas, had gone on to report at Aden the neod they were in.
All those nights in that flooded, dreadful cabin were spent.in pitch darkness, excepting the last four. It was only four days fore the rescue that any dry matches were found, these bei discovered in a watertight case. Then it was that the candles were lighted and placed in the portholes in the hope that their glimmer might attract observation; but the wind made it very dificult to keep even these iny signals alight.
Even when the "Mayo came to the rescue, on the seventeenth day after the wreck, the work of taking the survivors off was
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