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had been helped on board and was taken below, struggled 

 wildly to return to the lifeboat. 



" It's the blanket she wants!" shouted the men near 

 her. 



The bundle was handed to the steamer and was 

 about to be thrown on deck, when there was a startled 

 cry of, " Gently with the bundle, boys ! There s a baby 

 in it!" 



And so there was. A little child was lying, snug 

 and cosy, in the warm heart of the big, rough blanket. 



The Goodwins are pitiless, indeed ; and will continue 

 to claim ship and life, but they will also maintain that 

 noble race of men who are ceaselessly warring with it, 

 and so often prove victorious in the fight. These heroes 

 wrest some lives at any rate from the maw of the 

 monster whose toll will never be revealed until the sea 

 gives up its dead. 



