I could not look after her any more.

Then, as we rose on the top of a wave, I heard a rumble of words among the men, and I looked out, and saw she was tacking.

Before long, she was sailing straight back to us, and the most dreadful moments of my life were ended.

I had really not believed that she would ever return to us.
Again she came plowing along before us, the same group on her bow; again the life-preserver was thrown, and this time the captain seized it.
In a moment the line was made fast to the raft.

But there was no sudden tug.