"Go about and let's turn back." "My dear Major O'Halloran," said the mate calmly, "if I attempt to go about, the boat will fill instantly and sink.

Our only chance is in keeping on." As he spoke he resumed the course they had been just taking, and now, rapidly increasing in power, the sound of the waves breaking on rocks could be heard to right and left.
"But you don't know where you are going," said the major.
"No, sir.

But it is all I can do.

Mark Strong, rouse your father; and, major, be prepared to swim right ahead if anything happens." "What's the good ?" said the major calmly.

And then, "Shall I wake them, or let them meet it asleep?
I'll wake them," he said; and he crept cautiously to arouse Mrs and Mary O'Halloran, as Mark was rousing his father, his mother waking too.
"Breakers ?" said the captain.