Then a figure crawled out on the spar projecting above his head, seized him by the collar, and lifted him from the bobstay to which he was clinging on to the bowsprit.

A minute later he was standing on the deck.
"Thank you!" he exclaimed.

"Have you seen anything of the man who was with me?
There were two of us on board.

If not, please look for him at once." "I am afraid it's no use," one of the men said, with a strong foreign accent; "he has gone down and will never come up again.

You come along with me to the captain." An uneasy feeling seized Ralph as he listened.