In an agony of fear lest my friend should be again lost in the darkness, I leaped up and sprang into the sea.

Tom Lokins, however, had noticed what I was about; he seized me by the collar of my jacket just as I reached the water, and held me with a grip like a vice till one of the men came to his assistance, and dragged me back into the boat.

In a few moments more we reached the hen-coop, and Fred was saved! He was half dead with cold and exhaustion, poor fellow, but in a few minutes he began to recover, and before we reached the ship he could speak.

His first words were to thank God for his deliverance.

Then he added: "And, thanks to the man that flung that light overboard.