.

He tells him then that down in his cabin aft in a certain drawer there is a bundle of important papers and some sixty sovereigns in a small canvas bag.

Asks Cloete to go and get these things out.

He hasn't been below since the ship struck, and it seems to him that if he were to take his eyes off her she would fall to pieces.

And then the men--a scared lot by this time--if he were to leave them by themselves they would attempt to launch one of the ship's boats in a panic at some heavier thump--and then some of them bound to get drowned.