LOST ISLAND
"There's two more somewhere," Mr. Quick shouted across, as a number of men in each boat began to apply artificial respiration to the half-drowned victims.
Dave, happening to look a little way from the scene of the tragedy, noticed something awash on the surface for a moment.
"There's a man over there, Mr. Grimes," he yelled to the bo'sun, and the dory was urged across the intervening space.
"Sure enough there is," said Grimes, as they drew near. "You 've got quick eyes, lad. If this chap has any kick left in him he 'll owe his life to you."
The man's form was just sinking again when they got hold of it with a boat hook. He was a deck hand named Hawke, who had gone out of his way on more than one occasion to do an act of kindness to the boy.
For nearly half an hour the dorys cruised about the scene of the disaster, in the hope of picking
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