who,
hearing of Mary's walking out upon the beach, had immediately hastened
to her father's house. He too had seen the hero of Gotham; but that
gentleman, not deeming it wholesome to hold much conversation with men
of so little refinement and fashion as Bowline and Kelson, when
irritated, had made the best of his way towards B----.

Mary's father and lover accordingly hurried on, stopping at the house of
old Haddock, the fisherman, who lived near the upper end of "Jade's
Walk," as the hill-path was called, where they furnished themselves with
a lantern, a coil of rope, and sundry other articles that they deemed
necessary. Old Haddock and his two "boys," great two-fisted fellows of
twenty and two and twenty years of age, also accompanied them. They soon
arrived at the Devil's Gap, where they beheld the ruin caused by the
fall of the tree. For an instant a thrill of horror ran through the
hearts of two of the beholders; the idea that the object of their search
and solicitude had been swept away by the fall of the bridge, and
crushed in its ruins, or smothered in the mud and water at the foot of
the hill, occurred instantly to both of them.

From this state of agony and suspense, they were soon relieved by the
silver voice of =Mary= herself, calling from the further side of the gap,
"Here I am, dear father, don't attempt to come to me, the path is all
carried away on this side, and it is impossible for you or any one to
get to me. Wait till the tide has gone down, and I will walk round to
the point."

The sight of the dear girl in safety only stimulated them to greater
exertions; the old fisherman and one of his boys departed to their house
to procure a long plank, while Kelson and the other young man returned
to the top of the hill, and, by sliding and supporting themselves by the
bushes, safely descended to the spot where stood the lovely wanderer.
She was so overjoyed to see them, and so completely chilled through,
that she could scarcely speak. Kelson immediately stripped off his coat,
and insisted upon wrapping her in it; and the young Triton, following
the brilliant example of one whom he respected so much as Captain
Kelson, doffed his "monkey-jacket," and with hearty but rough kindness
forcibly enveloped her feet and ancles in its fearnought folds.

In a short time the other two fishermen arrived, bearing on their
shoulders a long plank. An end of a rope was then thrown to Kelson, by
which one end of the plank