The only difficulty was that this accurate information was very conflicting, no two of the positive eye-witnesses being able to agree.

So there was much shouting along shore, and many directions given, but all the searching for a long time proved vain.

All the shouting people hushed their shouting, and spoke in whispers whenever Albert came near.

To most men there is nothing more reverend than grief.

At half-past two o'clock, the man who held the rope felt a strange thrill, a sense of having touched one of the bodies.