The very sight of this bell-rope was a great comfort to her; it reunited her to civilized life.

That night she lay down, and quaked considerably less.
Yet she woke several times; and an hour before daylight she heard distinctly a noise that made her flesh creep.

It was like the snoring of some great animals.

This horrible sound was faint and distant; but she heard it between the roll of the waves, and that showed it was not the sea roaring; she hid herself in her rugs, and cowered till daybreak.

A score of times she was minded to pull her bell-rope; but always a womanly feeling, strong as her love of life, withheld her.