"Ah!" she said, looking wide-eyed into his face. "Ah!—But there must be pioneers."
The coast-guardsman turned and walked toward the crowd.
"She's 'is wife, men," he said, with a jerk of his thumb over his shoulder. "She's 'is wife; yet when I told her it was all U P, she said: 'There must be pioneers.'"
The crowd of roughs doffed their caps.
The boat drew slowly nearer.
Then she saw the Professor, hurrying down the shingle, waving his umbrella.
He must not come yet.
She advanced to the shore end of the breakwater, and spoke to the crowd.
"Please," she said, "oh, please, if possible, prevent that gentleman from reaching the breakwater."
They turned, and saw the advancing figure of the Professor, flurried and irate.