"Miss Markham!" he exclaimed.

"Mrs.Cliff! I truly believe we are out of all danger--that we--" But the two ladies had gone inside, and heard him not.

They appreciated to the full the danger from which they had been delivered.

Ralph, too, had gone.

The captain saw him on his post of observation, jamming the end of his flagpole down between two rocks.
"Hello!" cried the boy, seeing the captain looking up at him, "we might as well have this flying here all the time.