He bent over her with a panting heart as she lay there, insensible, on the long white shore.

Alive or dead?
that was now the question.
Raising her hastily in his arms, with her clothes all clinging wet and close about her, Felix carried her over the narrow strip of tidal beach, above high-water level, and laid her gently down on a soft green bank of short tropical herbage, close to the edge of the coral.

Then he bent over her once more, and listened eagerly at her heart.

It still beat with faint pulses--beat--beat--beat.

Felix throbbed with joy.