"You must be quiet, sir, or you will injure your arm," said Dr.
Vaudelier, mildly restraining the excited man.
"O, Emily, Emily!" groaned the sufferer. "Why did I leave you? Why did
we not perish together?"
"Be calm, sir,--be calm! You have lost a friend in this terrible
disaster?"
"I have. O that I could have died with her!"
"Are you sure she has perished?"
"She could scarcely have survived the explosion."
"Was she not in the ladies' cabin?"
"She was."
"Then probably she is safe. The ladies' cabin was thrown from its
position; but it appeared to be comparatively but little shattered. The
forward cabin was blown entirely in pieces."
"Thank God for this intelligence!" ejaculated Henry Carroll,--for the
reader has already discovered that it was he whom the doctor had
rescued.
"Another steamer was close at hand, so that probably most of the ladies
were saved, unless, as is often the case, they jumped overboard in their
fright."
"Heaven protect her!" exclaimed Henry.
"But, sir, I must insist on perfect quiet.
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