It was a fearful risk, but the vessel freed herself and drove to the smack.

One man was hanging on over the starboard side which was hove up; the schooner swept on in cruel danger, and the skipper might well look stern and white.

"We sha'n't save it," he growled.

Then Ferrier groaned, "Oh, God," for the keel of the smack at last heaved up, and she went down, down, slowly down, while her copper showed less and less, till the last fatal sea completed the work of wrath and ruin.
Ferrier felt that sensation of sickness which I have so often seen shown by strong men.

The skipper said: "We'll heave her to again.