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`` Colonel Carleton , '' she replied . `` Lean on me , Mrs. Carleton . Shall we go down this way ? '' The tide had carried out the mass of floating bodies to which the child had pointed at noon , but numbers of others still remained in all directions . Tottering and staggering among the dead , Mrs. Carleton continued her search , until she had looked into every ghastly face that lay there . `` Now will you call aloud for me , '' she said , `` for I can not , my strength is gone . '' Anna called , but the only sound that came back was the echo of her own voice from the forest and the heavy rolling of the sea .