Steady, old man! It's only just been discovered; they may get it under.

The panic's the worst part at present, and we're out of that." But was Eva Denison?
Breathlessly I put the question; his answer was reassuring.

Miss Denison was with her step-father on the poop.

"And both of 'em as cool as cucumbers," added Ready.
They could not have been cooler than this young man, with death at the bottom of his bright and sunken eyes.

He was of the type which is all muscle and no constitution; athletes one year, dead men the next; but until this moment the athlete had been to me a mere and incredible tradition.