is throat. The man seized Cadogan's free
wrist with both hands. Cadogan, hanging to the hook with one hand and
gripping the man's throat with the other, continued to squeeze the man's
throat. The man's legs kicked convulsively. Cadogan continued to
squeeze. When the legs stopped kicking, Cadogan forced the head under
water and eased up on his grip. Bubbles rose up and burst on the
surface. Cadogan placed his ear close to the water to hear. When he
could no longer hear the bubbles he loosed his grip.

With hands to the falls and feet against the ship's side, Cadogan
climbed to the deck where he had left his coat. He found it kicked to
one side and trampled upon. But the little photograph was still
there--in the inside pocket.

He took off his cap, the cap of the drowned man, while he kissed the
little photograph. "Coming, coming, oh, coming!" he murmured.

"Have you room for a passenger?" came in a man's voice from the dark.

Cadogan whirled. "Passenger? Passenger! I've fought and schemed
and--Oh!"

It was Lavis, and, clinging to his hand, was somebody in a man's long
ulster.

"It's the woman--you remember her?--who passed her baby boy into the
boat so that he would be saved."

Cadogan said nothing.

"A few minutes ago I found her. She was weeping for her baby. I asked
her why she should be weeping now that her baby was safe, and she
answered me: 'But who will be there to give him the breast when he
wakes?'"

Cadogan rested his left hand, with the fingers clinched around the cap,
on the ship's rail.

"If Christ on earth were to be with us once more," went on Lavis
softly, "would he not say again: 'Greater love hath no man than this'?
'Who will be there to give him the breast when he wakes?'--and she about
to die. Have you room for her as a passenger on your raft?"

"It will bear only one."

Lavis waited.

Cadogan unloosed the fingers of the hand on the rail. The cap dropped
into the sea.

"She shall be the one," he said presently.

In the rosy flush of a beautiful dawn a lone woman on a tiny raft
drifted down to her crying baby and gave him suck.

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|Transcriber's Notes: Minor changes have been made to make spelling and |
|punctuation consistent throughout the work. Italics have been replaced |
|with "_"(underline). Instances of ligature "oe" have been replaced with|
|simple "oe".