Morgana bent over it anxiously, but only for a moment, drawing a small phial from her bosom she forced a few drops of the liquid it contained between the set lips, and with a tiny syringe injected the same at the pulseless wrist and throat.

While she busied herself with these restorative measures, the second body,--that of the man,--was landed almost at her feet--and she found herself gazing in a sort of blank stupefaction at what seemed to be the graven image of Roger Seaton.

No effigy of stone ever looked colder, harder, greyer than this inert figure of man,--uninjured apparently, for there were no visible marks of wounds or bruises upon his features, which appeared frozen into stiff rigidity, but a man as surely dead as death could make him! Morgana heard, as in a far-off dream, the Marchese Rivardi speaking-- "I have done your bidding because it was you who bade,"-- he said, his voice shaking with the tremor and excitement of his daring effort--"And it was not so very difficult.

But it is a vain rescue! They are past recall." Morgana looked up from her awed contemplation of Seaton's rigid form.
Her eyes were heavy with unshed tears.
"I think not,"-- she said--"There is life in them--yes, there is life, though for the time it is paralysed.

But"-- here she gave him the loveliest smile of tenderness--"You brave Giulio!--you are exhausted and wet through--attend to yourself first--then you can help me with these unhappy ones--and you Gaspard,--Gaspard!" "Here, Madama!" "You have done so well!" she said--"Without fear or failure!" "Only by God's mercy!" answered Gaspard--"If the rope had broken; if the ship had lost balance--" She smiled.
"So many 'ifs' Gaspard?
Have I not told you it CANNOT lose balance?
And are not my words proved true?
Now we have finished our rescue work we may go--we can start at once--" He looked at her.
"There is more weight on board!" he said meaningly, "If we are to carry two dead bodies through the air, it may mean a heavenly funeral for all of us! The 'White Eagle' has not been tested for heavy transport." She heard him patiently,--then turned to Rivardi and repeated her words-- "We can start at once.