CHAPTER 15They lifted Jim into the boat and the girl followed. She was attired only in blouse and petticoat, and it did not occur to her until the boat was hauled up to the level boat deck and then she was thankful for the mercy of darkness until somebody put a coat around her and she made her escape to her cabin.
She had a hot bath and changed, and then in spite of the protests of Cecile went out to discover what had happened to Jim. She found him dressed in tweeds, the centre of an interested circle of passengers and he was lying outrageously.
"I went to sleep and fell over the rails," he said. "Miss Cameron saw me, I don't remember anything until I recovered consciousness with the calcium light blazing and Miss Cameron holding me up by my ears."
The quartermaster on watch aft had wit
