He raised her up and kissed her.

Then he placed her back in her mother's arms.
All at once she broke down as the recollection of danger swept back upon her.

'Oh, Mother! Mother!' she cried, with a long, low wail, which touched every one of her hearers to the heart's core.
'The hot blankets are all ready.

Come, there is not a moment to be lost.
I'll be with you when I have seen the men attended to!' So the mother, holding her in her arms and steadied by two seamen lest she should slip on the wet and slippery deck, took the child below.
Harold was taken by another set of men, who rubbed him down till he glowed, and poured hot brandy and water into him till he had to almost use force against the superabundance of their friendly ministrations.
For the remainder of that day a sort of solemn gladness ruled on the _Scoriac_.

The Stonehouse family remained in their suite, content in glad thankfulness to be with Pearl, who lay well covered up on the sofa sleeping off the effects of the excitement and the immersion, and the result of the potation which the Doctor had forced upon her.