He nodded his head, and we descended together to the cabin.

Even at this day it costs me pain to write of the terrible necessity to which the strength and obstinacy of Monkton's delusion reduced us in the last resort.

We were compelled to secure his hands, and drag him by main force to the deck.

The men were on the point of launching the boat, and refused at first to receive us into it.
"You cowards!" cried the captain, "have we got the dead man with us this time?
Isn't he going to the bottom along with the brig?
Who are you afraid of when we get into the boat ?" This sort of appeal produced the desired effect; the men became ashamed of themselves, and retracted their refusal.
Just as we pushed off from the sinking ship Alfred made an effort to break from me, but I held him firm, and he never repeated the attempt.
He sat by me with drooping head, still and silent, while the sailors rowed away from the vessel; still and silent when, with one accord, they paused at a little distance off, and we all waited and watched to see the brig sink; still and silent, even when that sinking happened, when the laboring hull plunged slowly into a hollow of the sea--hesitated, as it seemed, for one moment, rose a little again, then sank to rise no more.
Sank with her dead freight--sank, and snatched forever from our power the corpse which we had discovered almost by a miracle--those jealously-preserved remains, on the safe-keeping of which rested so strangely the hopes and the love-destinies of two living beings! As the last signs of the ship in the depths of the waters.
I felt Monkton trembling all over as he sat close at my side, and heard him repeating to himself, sadly, and many times over, the name of "Ada." I tried to turn his thoughts to another subject, but it was useless.

He pointed over the sea to where the brig had once been, and where nothing was left to look at but the rolling waves.
"The empty place will now remain empty forever in Wincot vault." As he said these words, he fixed his eyes for a moment sadly and earnestly on my face, then looked away, leaned his cheek on his hand, and spoke no more.
We were sighted long before nightfall by a trading vessel, were taken on board, and landed at Cartagena in Spain.