The Duke had saved himself.

In the morning two whale ships arrived on the scene and sent their boats.

The weather was stormy and the embarkation was attended with much confusion and excitement.

The lawyer did his duty like a man; helped his exhausted and insensible blonde, her parents and some others into a boat (the Duke helped himself in); then a child fell overboard at the other end of the raft and the lawyer rushed thither and helped half a dozen people fish it out, under the stimulus of its mother's screams.

Then he ran back--a few seconds too late--the blonde's boat was under way.