In the last moment a young einglish sailor carried her down into a lifeboat that has been forgotten. To the two fugitive it seemed as if fire was following them from all sides, for the phosphorescence played in the dark sea, and, as they looked up, a falling star run across the sky, as if it was going to drop in to the boat. They sailed for nine days, till they were picked up by a Dutch merchantman, and came home to England.