Will you please run and help him, at once, if you will be so kind ?' She did not think of turning to show them the exact spot, indicating it vaguely by the direction of her hand, and still going on her way with the idea of gaining more assistance.

When she deemed, in her faintness, that she had carried the alarm far enough, she faced about and dragged herself back again.

Before reaching the now dreaded spot she met one of the men.
'We can see nothing at all, Miss,' he declared.
Having gained the beach, she found the tide in, and no sign of Charley's clothes.

The other men whom she had besought to come had disappeared, it must have been in some other direction, for she had not met them going away.

They, finding nothing, had probably thought her alarm a mere conjecture, and given up the quest.
Baptista sank down upon the stones near at hand.