They unearthed two bottles of champagne, the last of the case, and promised each other a hearty toast at dinner.

Nothing would content Iris but that they should draw a farewell bucketful of water from the well and drench the pitcher-plant with a torrential shower.
Robert carefully secured the pocket-books, money and other effects found on their dead companions.

The baronet, of course, knew all the principal officers of the _Sirdar_.

He surveyed these mournful relics with sorrowful interest.
"The _Sirdar_ was the crack ship of my fleet, and Captain Ross my most trusted commander," he said.

"You may well imagine, Mr.
Anstruther, what a cruel blow it was to lose such a vessel, with all these people on board, and my only daughter amongst them.