In the faint light they gleamed like stars, as they fell upon her lover's face.
"Harry!" she exclaimed.
In an instant she was on her feet, supported by her friends until she had fully regained her balance.
Then explanations followed.
"And who, my friend, are you who have thus benefitted us?" inquired Harry, now turning to grasp the hand of the stranger.
The latter, however, was nowhere to be seen.
"That chap I should sartinly take for the devil, do you see, if it 'twan't that I couldn't neither see his caudal cumpendage, nor account for his savin' the gal, which no devil, I take it, would have done."
Meanwhile, words may not express the joy of the lovers at their reunion. Mary had firmly believed that Harry was dashed to pieces when Brand let go of the rope.
Alluding to this, Turk now said:
"How came you to do sich a trick, captain?"