exhausted to our little the behind us and we had been compelled to row in a dead calm practically ever inch of the way another day of heart breaking and dangerous toil saw us in camp with the two to the good the day following i was desperate and i together the the fore and main and the fore and main the wind was favorable and i had thought to tow them back under sail but the wind baffled then died away and our progress with the oars was a s pace and it was such effort to throw one s whole strength and weight on the oars and to feel the boat checked in iti forward by the heavy drag behind was not exactly ht an to fall and to make matters worse the wind s ran up ahead not only did all forward cease but wc be an to drift back and out to sea i at the oars till i was played out poor whom i could never prevent from working to the limit of her strength lay weakly back in the stern sheets i could row no more my bruised and swollen hands could no longer t� b sea i lose on the oar my wrists and arms ached and though i had eaten heartily of a twelve clock lunch i bad worked so bard that i was faint from linger i pulled in the oars and bent forward to the which the tow but s band leaped out i mine what are you going to do she asked in a voice cast it off i answered slipping a turn of the but her fingers closed on mine please don t she begged it is useless i answered here is night and the ind blowing us off the land but think if wc cannot sail away on the � we may remain for years on the island � for life if it has never been discovered all these years it lay never be discovered you forget the boat we found on the beach i her it was a seal hunting boat she replied and you now perfectly well that if the men had escaped they ould have been back to make their fortunes from the you know they never escaped remained silent besides she added it s your idea and i int to sec you succeed now i could my heart as soon as she put it n a flattering personal basis generosity compelled me to her better years on the island than to die to night or to or the next day in the open boat we are not to brave the sea wc have no food no water the sea wolf no blankets nothing why you d not survive the night without blankets i know how strong you are you are shivering now it is only she answered i am you will cast off the in spite of me oh please please don t i she burst out a moment later and so it ended with the se she knew had all power over me we shivered miserably throughout the night now and again i slept but the pain of the always aroused me how could stand it was beyond me i was too tired to my arms about and myself but i found strength time and again to her hands and feet to restore the circulation and still she i pleaded with me not to cast off the about three in the morning she was caught by a cold and after had rubbed her out of that she became quite i was frightened i got out the oars and made her row thou she was so weak i thought she would faint at every stroke broke and we looked long in the growing light for our island at last it showed small and ck on tbe horizon fully fifteen miles away i the sea my glasses far away in the i could see a dark line on the water which grew even as i looked at it fair wind i cried in a voice i did not as my own tried to reply but could not speak her were blue with cold and she was hollow eyed � but ok how bravely her brown eyes looked at met how brave a ain i fell to her hands and to moving arms up ai l down and about until he could ll then i compelled her to stand up and the sea tbe would have fallen i not supported her i forced her to walk back and forth the several steps between the and the and to spring up and down oh j ou brave brave woman i said when i � aw the coming back into her face did you know thai you were brave i never used to be she i was er till i knew you it is you who have made me brave nor i until i knew you i answered she gave mc a quick look and n i caught that dancing tremulous light and something more in ber eyes but it was only for the moment then she smiled it must have been the conditions she said but i knew she was wrong and i wondered if she likewise knew d fair and fresh and the boat was soon laboring through a heavy sea toward the island at past three in the afternoon we passed the not only were we hungry but we were now from thirst our lips were dry and cracked nor could we longer them with our tongues then the wind slowly died down by night it was dead calm and i was toiling once more at the oars � but most weakly at two in the morning the boat s bow touched the beach of our own inner and staggered out to make the painter fast could rot stand nor had i strength to 