When the rope was untied, I said, 'Wait till I call,' and I ran round
the corner of the _debris_. The great upright wall of earth and
sward, from which had stared the body of Wynne, had fallen, hiding
him and his crime together!
To return round the corner of the landslip and call Winifred was the
work of an instant, and, quick as she was in answering my call, by
the time she had reached me I had thrown off my coat and boots.
'Now for a run and a tussle with the waves, Winnie,' I said.
'Then we are not going to die?'
'We are going to live. Run; in six more returns of a wave like that
there will he four feet of water at the Point.'
'Come along, Snap,' said Winifred, and she flew along the sands
without another word.
Ah, she could run!--faster than I could, with my bruised heel! She
was there first.
'Leap in, Winnie,' I cried, 'and struggle towards the Point; it will
save time. I shall he with you in a second.'
Winifred plunged into the tide (Snap following with a bark), and
fought her way so bravely that my fear now was lest she should be out
of her depth before I could reach her, and then, clad as she was, she
would certainly drown.
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