Saltash gripped the clutching hand, dropping the end of rope. It trailed
down, and Larpent caught it, flung it round Saltash's body, and knotted
it while he was lifting Toby over the rail.

Then for a second Saltash hung, one hand still gripping Toby's, the other
holding to the rail of his sinking yacht, the two of them poised side by
side above the abyss.

"You'll save yourself, Larpent!" he cried. "I shall want you."

And with that he turned suddenly to his shivering companion and
actually smiled into the terrified eyes. "Come on, Toby!" he said. "We
go--together!"

He flung his leg over with the words, and leapt straight downwards.

Toby's shriek sounded through the tumult as they went into the grey
depths.




CHAPTER VII

LARPENT'S DAUGHTER


The sinking of _The Night Moth_ after being in collision with the liner,
_Corfe Castle_, bound for Brazil, was an event of sufficient importance
to be given a leading place in the newspapers of the following day. Lord