"Tell me how those two came to be separated from the rest.

You have always been the kindest of friends--don't begin to be cruel to me now!" The tone in which she made her entreaty to Crayford went straight to the sailor's heart.

He gave up the hopeless struggle: he let her see a glimpse of the truth.
"On the third day out," he said, "Frank's strength failed him.

He fell behind the rest from fatigue." "Surely they waited for him ?" "It was a serious risk to wait for him, my child.

Their lives (and the lives of the men they had left in the huts) depended, in that dreadful climate, on their pushing on.