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and all of us, overboard in that welter, were gone

Silently, I stepped on deck onceme the life preservers "Put them on," I said to

Helena

"Oh, I can't I can't!" --let me

alone"

"Stop this nonsense,that was the only

way--"put it on at once You too, Miss Emory, and you, my boys Quick

Then throw on loose wraps--all you can It will be cold"

In spite of all my efforts to seem calm, the air of panic ran swiftly

Mrs Daniver awoke to swift action as she tre past me, she reached the deck, and sooverboard I caught

at her, and though ht away little more than a handful

of false hair, it seeh it destroyed her

coiffure "Enough of this!" I cried to her "Take your place by the

boat, and do as you are told" And I saw Helena pass forward, also, as

we all reached the deck, herself pale as a wraith, but with no outcry

and no spoken word So, at last, I ranged the ready at the davits