See the crowd, how it presses down to the very breaker’s edge!
Now they fall back!
Hark!
Did you not hear that shout?
Saved! Saved!
Bulger has landed!
The men on shore have hold of the twine.
The reel whirls swiftly around!
My men, ashamed of their cowardice, crawl from their hiding-places and set to work with a will.
Already they have fastened a line to the end of the twine and it is moving briskly over the rail.