Max Pemberton,
The Sea Wolves — X. INTO THE UNKNOWN HAVEN
(1901)
“ Thence onward was lurching, staggering work, but half-an-hour of it brought us right up out of the sea, and we sank breathless upon a heap of sand at the foot of a tremendous cliff, and there lay like dead men. ”
Max Pemberton,
The Sea Wolves — X. INTO THE UNKNOWN HAVEN
(1901)
“ For a spell the struggle was fierce; but Fisher, who had his courage back, fighting water with all his nerve, grasped the companion at last, and hauled himself up with fierce strength. The Prince was at his heels; but the American, tumbling headlong on the slippery floor, fell at the foot of the stairs, and lay there, while another sea poured its suffocating crest upon him. There he might have lain and died but for the lad, who, coming upon the deck, immediately looked about him to see how his companions had fared, and, observing only Messenger at his side, asked:"Where's Kenner? ”
Max Pemberton,
The Sea Wolves — X. INTO THE UNKNOWN HAVEN
(1901)
“ I thought he was with you.""He is on the floor, and dead by this," gasped the other, as the whip-like water cut his face, and he clung, with hands benumbed and shivering limbs, to the rail of the poop; "but it's every man for himself now! What an end! what an end!"He said this, hoping to hold back Fisher, who had turned at to his companion again, for it came to him that he would be better wanting the American's company. But the lad had not heard the words, and was at the ladder while the man yet spoke them. ”
