The chief officer judged his second beautifully, and the line fell clean across the vessel and all but amidships.

A figure started up from the lee of the deckhouse, and springing into the main shrouds, grasped it and made it fast.

The beach being too low for them to work the cradle clear above the breakers, the coast-guardsmen carried the shore end of the line up the shelving cliff and fixed it.

Within ten minutes the cradle was run out, and within twenty the first man came swinging shoreward.
Four men were brought ashore alive, the captain last.

The rest of the crew of six lay on the sands with Mr.Raymond kneeling beside them.