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I
refused
to
go
aboard
her
,
and
flung
myself
full
length
on
the
deck
.
In
the
end
,
they
swung
me
into
her
by
a
rope
(
for
they
had
no
stern
ladder
)
,
and
then
they
cut
me
adrift
.
I
drifted
slowly
from
the
schooner
.
In
a
kind
of
stupor
I
watched
all
hands
take
to
the
rigging
,
and
slowly
but
surely
she
came
round
to
the
wind
;
the
sails
fluttered
,
and
then
bellied
out
as
the
wind
came
into
them
.
I
stared
at
her
weather-beaten
side
heeling
steeply
towards
me
;
and
then
she
passed
out
of
my
range
of
view
.
I
did
not
turn
my
head
to
follow
her
.
At
first
I
could
scarcely
believe
what
had
happened
.
I
crouched
in
the
bottom
of
the
dingey
,
stunned
,
and
staring
blankly
at
the
vacant
,
oily
sea
.
Then
I
realized
that
I
was
in
that
little
hell
of
mine
again
,
now
half
swamped
;
and
looking
back
over
the
gunwale
,
I
saw
the
schooner
standing
away
from
me
,
with
the
red-haired
captain
mocking
at
me
over
the
taffrail
,
and
turning
towards
the
island
saw
the
launch
growing
smaller
as
she
approached
the
beach
.
Abruptly
the
cruelty
of
this
desertion
became
clear
to
me
.
I
had
no
means
of
reaching
the
land
unless
I
should
chance
to
drift
there
.
I
was
still
weak
,
you
must
remember
,
from
my
exposure
in
the
boat
;
I
was
empty
and
very
faint
,
or
I
should
have
had
more
heart
.
But
as
it
was
I
suddenly
began
to
sob
and
weep
,
as
I
had
never
done
since
I
was
a
little
child
.
The
tears
ran
down
my
face
.
In
a
passion
of
despair
I
struck
with
my
fists
at
the
water
in
the
bottom
of
the
boat
,
and
kicked
savagely
at
the
gunwale
.
I
prayed
aloud
for
God
to
let
me
die
.
But
the
islanders
,
seeing
that
I
was
really
adrift
,
took
pity
on
me
.
I
drifted
very
slowly
to
the
eastward
,
approaching
the
island
slantingly
;
and
presently
I
saw
,
with
hysterical
relief
,
the
launch
come
round
and
return
towards
me
.
She
was
heavily
laden
,
and
I
could
make
out
as
she
drew
nearer
Montgomery
's
white-haired
,
broad-shouldered
companion
sitting
cramped
up
with
the
dogs
and
several
packing-cases
in
the
stern
sheets
.
This
individual
stared
fixedly
at
me
without
moving
or
speaking
.
The
black-faced
cripple
was
glaring
at
me
as
fixedly
in
the
bows
near
the
puma
.
There
were
three
other
men
besides
,
--
three
strange
brutish-looking
fellows
,
at
whom
the
staghounds
were
snarling
savagely
.
Montgomery
,
who
was
steering
,
brought
the
boat
by
me
,
and
rising
,
caught
and
fastened
my
painter
to
the
tiller
to
tow
me
,
for
there
was
no
room
aboard
.
I
had
recovered
from
my
hysterical
phase
by
this
time
and
answered
his
hail
,
as
he
approached
,
bravely
enough
.
I
told
him
the
dingey
was
nearly
swamped
,
and
he
reached
me
a
piggin
.
I
was
jerked
back
as
the
rope
tightened
between
the
boats
.
For
some
time
I
was
busy
baling
.
It
was
not
until
I
had
got
the
water
under
(
for
the
water
in
the
dingey
had
been
shipped
;
the
boat
was
perfectly
sound
)
that
I
had
leisure
to
look
at
the
people
in
the
launch
again
.
The
white-haired
man
I
found
was
still
regarding
me
steadfastly
,
but
with
an
expression
,
as
I
now
fancied
,
of
some
perplexity
.
When
my
eyes
met
his
,
he
looked
down
at
the
staghound
that
sat
between
his
knees
.
He
was
a
powerfully-built
man
,
as
I
have
said
,
with
a
fine
forehead
and
rather
heavy
features
;
but
his
eyes
had
that
odd
drooping
of
the
skin
above
the
lids
which
often
comes
with
advancing
years
,
and
the
fall
of
his
heavy
mouth
at
the
corners
gave
him
an
expression
of
pugnacious
resolution
.
He
talked
to
Montgomery
in
a
tone
too
low
for
me
to
hear
.
From
him
my
eyes
travelled
to
his
three
men
;
and
a
strange
crew
they
were
.
I
saw
only
their
faces
,
yet
there
was
something
in
their
faces
--
I
knew
not
what
--
that
gave
me
a
queer
spasm
of
disgust
.
I
looked
steadily
at
them
,
and
the
impression
did
not
pass
,
though
I
failed
to
see
what
had
occasioned
it
.
They
seemed
to
me
then
to
be
brown
men
;
but
their
limbs
were
oddly
swathed
in
some
thin
,
dirty
,
white
stuff
down
even
to
the
fingers
and
feet
:
I
have
never
seen
men
so
wrapped
up
before
,
and
women
so
only
in
the
East
.
They
wore
turbans
too
,
and
thereunder
peered
out
their
elfin
faces
at
me
,
--
faces
with
protruding
lower-jaws
and
bright
eyes
.
They
had
lank
black
hair
,
almost
like
horsehair
,
and
seemed
as
they
sat
to
exceed
in
stature
any
race
of
men
I
have
seen
.
The
white-haired
man
,
who
I
knew
was
a
good
six
feet
in
height
,
sat
a
head
below
any
one
of
the
three
.
I
found
afterwards
that
really
none
were
taller
than
myself
;
but
their
bodies
were
abnormally
long
,
and
the
thigh-part
of
the
leg
short
and
curiously
twisted
.
At
any
rate
,
they
were
an
amazingly
ugly
gang
,
and
over
the
heads
of
them
under
the
forward
lug
peered
the
black
face
of
the
man
whose
eyes
were
luminous
in
the
dark
.
As
I
stared
at
them
,
they
met
my
gaze
;
and
then
first
one
and
then
another
turned
away
from
my
direct
stare
,
and
looked
at
me
in
an
odd
,
furtive
manner
.
It
occurred
to
me
that
I
was
perhaps
annoying
them
,
and
I
turned
my
attention
to
the
island
we
were
approaching
.
