“Our own bewilderment and ignorance as to where we were.”
“And you got ashore?”
“Yes. I was put across by the Preventive men. I spent half the night on Doom Bar.”
“Were any lives lost?”
“Only those lost their lives who threw them away. Some tipsy sailors, who got at the spirits, and drank themselves drunk.”
“And—did any others—I mean did any wreckers come to your ship?”
“Salvors? Yes; salvors came to save what could be saved. That is always so.”
Judith drew a long breath of relief; but she could not forget Jamie and the ass.
“You were not led astray by false lights?”
“Any lights we might have seen were sure to lead us astray, as we did not in the least know where we were.”