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The last object I re at ht as I arose to the surface, was that as the water had probably cleansed ht fro hasty grasp upon it, but rehtened black paddle with diligence out of that neighborhood This was a task he was not slow in accoth to trained ood fortune to discover a safe landing-place beneath the lee of a long ht was unobserved by any one

Re reasonably secure fro,back and forth across the packed earthen floor to keep chilled blood in circulation, seeking eagerly to evolve out of the confused events of the afternoon soht one The closer I faced the desperate work re unaccomplished the less I enjoyed the outlook, theaboard the "Santa Maria" was now, to my mind, the simplest part of the adventure, but beyond the accoe uarded deck, during the dark hours of the night, depended so largely upon the occurrence of helpful circued beforehand beca to ether a chain of details, trusting, with the blind faith of a fatalist, that these would somehow fall into line when the hour came If they failed, as was likely, I determined to shift theency arose I realized how small a part any preliminary survey holds in such an enterprise as now fronted rave personal peril, where any bungling act or falsein an instant; yet it is alell--or at least so I have found it--to trace some outline of procedure, rather than trust wholly to the intuitions of themost for themselves

I felt little confidence by the time Alphonse returned, yet my firm determination to make the effort had in no way abated Indeed, had failure been an absolute certainty I should have gone forward exactly the sae to Eloise de Noyan I have reason to suppose dogged deter farthan this inherited tendency drove me irresistibly forward to my fate This is no story of the rescue of a prisoner of war, but rather of how love impelled an ordinary man to the accomplishment of deeds which seemed impossible