Part 60 (1/2)
”I suppose so, but I don't know It was all one horrible confusion”
”Yes; but another few yards, I expect, and you would have been safe, and could have pulled h, or helped me as I swam”
”Perhaps,” said Aleck, rather slowly, for he felt confused still ”But what are you doing?”
”Peeling offnoith et on”
”No, no, no!” cried Aleck, excitedly ”You mustn't try It's too horrible”
”Horrible? Nonsense It's only a swi”
”I tell you it can't be done, sailor,” cried Aleck, angrily ”The risk is too great I should have been drowned if you had not hauledto be drowned you'll haul h now, aren't you?”
”Oh, yes; but you s off, my lad, and I'll show you Why, you'd have done it splendidly if you had dived off the rock instead of going in flip-flap like a sole out of a basket I'll show you how to do it”
”You'd better take my word for it that it can't be done Let's wait till the tide's low enough, and then swiet out of my uniform,” said the middy, stubbornly, ”I'll show you, ood deal
Soht place in the ocean, I e divers, and if I' for pearl shell”
”Well,” said Aleck, rather sadly, ”I've warned you, and I suppose it is of no use for ing off his second stocking ”You make fast the dry end of the line round ht,sailor possessed the greater will power now, for Aleck was yet half stunned by what he had gone through He obeyed every order he received, and carefully knotted on the rope
”Now, are you ready?” said the h?”
”Yes”
”And,you No, no, don't untie your end of the rope; you'll want that Now, do you understand?”
”Yes”
”Very well, then, as soon as I'nal to you to coain, and take a header off it Don't bungle it this time, and when you feel uide you to where I'”
”But what about our clothes?” said Aleck, drearily
”Bother our clothes! We want to save our skins and not our clothes
Now, then, ready?”
”Yes, if you will go”