I stood and watched through a glass the boats at the steamer's side, and at length, to my relief, I saw one of them leave her ; but as it came near I saw, to my surprise, that Mr Bransome was not in the boat, and that it was not the one that Sooka steered. Quickly it was overtaken by the breakers, but escaped their power and came in shore on the back of a majestic roller that did not break until it was close to the beach, where the boat was in safety. Not without vague apprehension at his imprudence, but still not an ticipating any actual harm from it, I thought that Mr Bransome had chosen to come back in Sooka's boat, and I waited and waited to see it re turn, although the daylight had now so waned that I could no longer per ceive what was going on alongside the steamer. At last I caught sight of a boat, a white speck upon the waters, and, just as it entered upon the dangerous part of the bar, I discerned, to my infinite amazement, that two figures were seated in the stern, — a man and a woman, — a white woman ; I could see her white dress fluttering in the wind, and Sooka's black figure standing behind her. On came the boat impelled by the swift flowing seas, and for a quarter of an hour it was tossed on the crests of the waves. Again and again it rose and sank with them as they came rolling in, but somehow, after a little further time, it seemed to me that it did not make such way to wards the shore as it should have done. I lifted the glass to my eyes, and I saw that the boys were hardly pulling at all, though the boat was now close to the rocks that were near the cliff. Nor did Sooka seem to be conscious of a huge roller that was swiftly ap proaching him. In my excitement I was just on the point of shouting to warn those in the boat of their danger, although I knew that they could not understand what I might say, when I saw Jackson standing on the edge of the cliff, a little way off, dressed in his shirt and trousers only. 