Chapter Four.
Difficulties met and overcome.
The next day Pauline and her brothers visited the wreck, and here new difficulties met them, for although the vessel lay hard and fast on the rocks, there was a belt of water between it and the main shore, which was not only broad, but deep.
“I can easily swim it,” said Dominick, beginning to pull off his coat.
“Dom,” said Otto, solemnly, “sharks!”
“That’s true, my boy, I won’t risk it.”
He put his coat on again, and turned to look for some drift-wood with which to make a raft.
“There’s sure to be some lying about, you know,” he said, “for a wreck could hardly take place without something or other in the way of spars or wreckage being washed ashore.”