In the struggle that followed, an arrow was drawn from the ship, which was not daring to hurl another rock for fear lest it hit the wrong in the ship. The landing with terrible force on the back of the ship and crushing him senseless to the ground.

Snatching up the machete and leaving the musket to the rope, Philip hurried into the cave, meeting near the mouth of the neck his princess, followed by the Savoy woman and Mr. Nicholas.

The emergency permitted no delays for congratulation or demonstration of affection. Almost cavalierly Philip threw the woman he loved behind him and communicated to the mate of the Samaritan his hiding place.

Two minutes later the little party was running frantically beneath the path. When it had covered perhaps half the distance to the shore, a growing clamor of cries warned Philip that the wreckers had landed from the schooner and were making promptly for the cave.

Lasting secreting themselves in the jungle beside the path, the fugitives, in breathlessly perdu while a rabble of drunken negroes streaming inland, following Ramon, the negro foremast-hand, and the leader of the wreckers, terrifying vision of brutal, bestial.  faces revealed by the flare of torches. For already the sudden tropic night had closed down upon the island and the sea. On the heels of that rabble pressed another, composed of the women and children of the village, together with the men who had been left on the island. 