"Sar," said Boosoobi, who, being a coast boy, elected to speak English, "dem wood she no lib." "Hey?" gasped Bones, turning pale. "Dem wood she be done. I look um. I see um. I no find um." Bones sat down heavily on the rail. "What does he say?" Pat asked anxiously. "He says there's no more wood," said Bones. "The horrid old bunkers are empty, an' we're at the mercy of the tempest." "Oh, Bones!" she cried, in consternation. But Bones had recovered. "What about swimmin' to shore with a line?" he said. "It can't be more than ten miles!" It was Ali Abid who prevented the drastic step. "Sir," he said, "the subject on such occasions should act with deliberate reserve. Proximity of land presupposes research. The subject should assist rather than retard research by passivity of action, easy respiration, and general normality of temperature." "Which means, dear old Miss Hamilton, that you've got to keep your wool on," explained Bones. What might have happened is not to be recorded, for at that precise moment the s.s. _Paretta_ came barging up over the horizon. There was still steam in the _Wiggle's_ little boiler, and one log of wood to keep it at pressure. Bones was incoherent, but again Ali came to the rescue. "Sir," he said, "for intimating SOS-ness there is upon steamer or launch certain scientific apparatus, unadjusted, but susceptible to treatment." "The wireless!" spluttered Bones. "Good lor', the wireless!" Twenty minutes later the _Wiggle_ ran alongside the gangway of the s.s. _Paretta_, anticipating the arrival of the _Zaire_ by half an hour. The s.s. _Paretta_ was at anchor when Sanders brought the _Zaire_ to the scene. He saw the _Wiggle_ riding serenely by the side of the great ship, looking for all the world like a humming bird under the wings of an ostrich, and uttered a little prayer of thankfulness. "They're safe," he said to Hamilton. "O Yoka, take the _Zaire_ to the other side of the big boat." "Master, do we go back to-night to seek Ko-boru?" asked Yoka, who was bearing marks which indicated his strenuous experience, for he had fought his way clear of his captors, and had swum with the stream to headquarters. "To-morrow is also a day," quoth Sanders. Hamilton was first on the deck of the s.s. _Paretta_, and found his sister and a debonair and complacent Bones waiting for him. With them was an officer whom Hamilton recognized. "Company accounts all correct, sir," said Bones, "audited by the jolly old paymaster"--he saluted the other officer--"an' found correct, sir, thus anticipatin' all your morose an' savage criticisms." Hamilton gripped his hand and grinned. "Bones was really wonderful," said the girl, "they wouldn't have seen us if it hadn't been for his idea." "Saved by wireless, sir," said Bones nonchalantly. "It was a mere nothin'--just a flash of inspiration." "You got the wireless to work?" asked Hamilton incredulously.