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USTas the spinning dory reached the ortex, a change came over the turbulent water. The fiercest suction seemed to have spent itself. The whirlpool became a dozen smaller eddies, each with its rapidly revolving current, and though the dory danced from one point of danger to another it remained afloat. Loose spars and gear from the derelict began to shoot up to the surface.

"Let her have it now, lads," shouted the bo'sun. "This 'll be our only chance of getting any one who went down."

A minute later both dorys were over the place where the Miriam had sunk, and two unconscious forms were soon lifted out of the water.