Then those cowardly dogs of sailors, thinking that she must founder instantly, threw me into the boat and rowed away, leaving her to her fate in the cabin; whereon your son, acting on some words which I spoke in my delirium, sailed out alone at night and rescued her." "Yes, I heard something, but Morris is not too communicative.

The odd thing about the whole affair, so far as I can gather, is that he should have discovered that there was anybody left on board.

But he is a curious fellow, Morris; those things which one would expect him to know he never does know; and the things that nobody else has ever heard of he seems to have at his fingers' ends by instinct, or second sight, or something.

Well, it has all turned out for the best, hasn't it ?" "Oh, yes, I suppose so," answered Mr.Fregelius, glancing at his injured leg.

"At any rate, we are both alive and have not lost many of our belongings." "Quite so; and under the circumstances you should be uncommonly thankful.