The salving of this body had become almost a personal dispute between the sea and him.

The gale had shattered two of his windlasses; but two remained, and by one o'clock next day he had both slung over to the mainland and fixed beside the rock.

The news spreading inland fetched two or three score onlookers before ebb of tide--miners for the most part, whose help could be counted on.

The men of the coast-guard had left the wreck, to bear a hand if needed.

George had come too.
And happening to glance upwards while he directed his men, Taffy saw a carriage with two horses drawn up on the grassy edge of the cliff: a groom at the horses' heads and in the carriage a figure seated, silhouetted there high against the clear blue heaven.