"
Without more words, Captain Josh lifted Rod tenderly in his arms and
scrambled up into the tug.
"For heaven's sake! what have ye got there?" Captain Tobin exclaimed.
"Parson Dan's son, that's who it is. Got a bed ready?"
"Bring him here," and Captain Tobin turned to his right. "Put him in
my bed; he'll be all right there."
By this time the tug-boatmen had made fast to the _Roaring Bess_ with a
long rope, and kept her in tow as the tug was swung around and headed
for the drifting scow.
"We'll just run that confounded scow into the lee of the island,"
Captain Tobin told the ship-wrecked men, "and then we'll put you ashore
as fast as this old tub can travel. Will that do?"
"I s'pose so," Captain Josh replied. "But git a big hustle on. Ye've
got something more important than a scow to save to-night."
CHAPTER XXXI
BETTER THAN A FAIRY TALE
News of the accident on the river soon spread throughout the parish.
For a time various kinds of reports were in circulation, until it was
learned that Rod was the only one who had received any injury. It was
told how Captain Josh had carried him up to the rectory, while the
doctor went ahead to tell the Royals what had happened.
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