"If you blow these out, fasten the necks tightly, and then lash them round you, you can't sink.

The drift of the tide will take you not very far from the point below, and, if you do your best to strike out towards the shore, I have no doubt you will be able to make it.

You must lower yourself into the water very quietly, and allow yourself to float down, till you are well astern of the vessel." Richard Horton stood for a minute or two, with his hand over his eyes; then he said in a broken voice: "God bless you, Walsham.

I will try it.

If I am shot, 'tis better than dying by my own hand.