rser told the woman that
he had been shot in the right arm and could not help her nor come near
to her. She answered that it was good to hear his voice.

The water was very cold. He began to be alarmed and reasoned as to
whether the cold water would not stay the bleeding. From time to time he
would call out to the woman to keep up hope and courage and not to
struggle, but at last he saw she was exhausted. With infinite effort,
swimming with his left arm, he managed to draw near to her.

"Is drowning very painful?" the woman asked.

"No," answered the officer. "Once the water rushes into the lungs one
smothers."

To which the English girl answered, "Then I think I will not wait any
longer. Good-bye! Good luck!"

Utterly exhausted she let her head fall over and in a moment the
life-preserver was on the top and that was all that he saw.

"The next thing I remember," said the officer, "was waking up to find a
nurse trying to pour a stimulant down my throat."

A destroyer had come up in response to the signals for help and picked
up the survivors.

For months he was in the hospital before he could be carried to England.
Even now he was not able to lift a hat from his head with his right arm,
but he could write a little. This was his first voyage to test his
strength to prove to the Government that he could take his old task as
purser.

"How did you feel, purser, when you heard that cannon roar this morning
against that submarine?"

You should have seen the fire flash in the man's eyes.

"How did I feel?" answered the officer. "I felt like a race-horse
snuffing the battle from afar. Let them sink this ship--I will take
another. Let them sink every steamer, I'll take a sailing vessel. Let
them sink all our sailing vessels, we will betake ourselves to tugs.

"We have 5,000 steamers that come and go between any Sunday and Sunday.
Some are old cattle-boats, some are sea tramps and some are ocean
hounds. They have carried 10,000,000 men and 20,000,000 tons of war
materials, and 8,000,000 tons of iron ore and $3,000,000,000 worth of
goods.

"We have lent six hundred ships to France and four hundred ships to
Italy. Our ancestors smashed the Spanish Armada. Our grandfathers
baffled Napoleon and their sons defy the Hun and his submarine.

"When I go down my son will take my place. When Germany beats England
there will not be an Englishman left to tell how it happened."

Then, leaning over the railing of the ship, th