"I am very glad.

I had made up my mind that he must be dead, for of course I knew that he would never have left me otherwise.

It did not occur to me that he might be carried away senseless.

Is he--" and she paused, then added: "tell me the worst--quick." "No; the doctor thinks in no danger at present; only a break of the thigh and a scalp wound.

Of course, he could not help himself, for he can have known no more than a corpse of what was passing," he went on.
"It is those sailors who are to blame--for leaving you on the ship, I mean." She shrugged her shoulders contemptuously.
"The sailors! From such rough men one does not expect much.