30/53 To cross it I should have had to swim and, if what I've heard since is true, I doubt if I could swim that channel. Captain Hammond helped me out of a bad scrape." "Oh, no! I guess not. He said you were cruising without a pilot and he towed you into port; that's the way he expressed it." "It was worse than that, a good deal worse. It might have been my last cruise. I'm pretty certain that I owe the captain my life." She looked at him uncomprehendingly. |