atter, Shane, pull on--pull on; let us not set our lives against
those of the brave men who are floating yonder. What matters it after
all if we are lost? Death can come but once to any of us." It is
impossible to give the force of those words, uttered, as they were, in
the native tongue of the Irish, which she spoke. "Pull on, Shane, pull
on," again she cried. "Boy, steer for those men; see, they are still
floating above the waves."

In spite of the masses of timber, which appeared to be thrown
providentially on either side, the boat approached the two men, who
still floated above the water.

"Save him, friends; never mind me," said a voice as they lifted the
person he supported, and who, by his uniform appeared to be an officer,
into the arms of Shane, he himself holding on to the gunnel of the boat.
The officer was quickly placed in the stern-sheets, when Shane helped
his companion on board, and then again grasping his oar, pulled the boat
safely round before the sea had time to catch her on the beam and
overturn her.

The seaman hauled out of the water, the stimulus to exertion having
ceased, sank down fainting by the side of his officer. The danger of
returning was as great as that which they experienced in approaching the
wreck. The spray flew over them, and it seemed that every billowy wave
would overwhelm the frail bark. All this time they were watched eagerly
by the young ladies and their old friend from the cliff above. On the
boat came; now a vast sea threatened her with instant destruction, but
the fishwife and her brother, rowing till the stout oars bent with their
exertions, urged on their boat and escaped the danger. Nearer and
nearer she approached the shore; now a huge roller came thundering up
close to her stern, and seemed about to turn her over and over, but it
broke just before it reached her, and by vigorous strokes, forced ahead,
she escaped its power. In another instant lifted on a foaming sea, she
glided forward, arriving high up on the sandy beach of the little cove.

"There are two people in her," exclaimed Nora, who had been eagerly
watching them. "We will go down and help them, for they evidently
require assistance."

"Those two poor fellows must be nearly drowned," observed Mr Finlayson,
as he accompanied the ladies to the hut. "I wish we had a medical man
here, but for the want of one, I must take his place and prescribe for
them. These fishermen are more likely to kill