Andy stared out over the dark sea. To the south and astern, the _Corinthian_, which could have been alongside before now, was racing more than a hundred miles away to pursue a sound ship. He had sent it on that pursuit. Somewhere out ahead--if the German _Elbe_ also had happened to hear his false S. O. S. calls and was responding to them--was the ship which they might meet in time to save the _Cumberland’s_ company. The rockets constantly exploded in the sky to attract it. Slowly, with terrible, heart-dragging counting of the minutes while the fire gained and gained again in spite of all the floods pumped into the hull, the half-hour passed. Still the electricians worked over the wireless apparatus; only the rasping of sandpapered blocks still tricked the passengers that the wireless was working. “Time’s up!” the second officer shut his watch. “If we’re going to meet the _Elbe_, we should see her lights now.” A cry from the point of the deck forward--light--a streaking flame in the sky ahead. The German liner _Elbe_ was in sight! It answered the rockets of the _Cumberland_. The two ships raced on to each other. * * * * * The fast German mail steamer, _Elbe_--which every one knows was responding to an unexplained false call from the _Wellington_--took off the passengers from the burning _Cumberland_; and, as the crew of the _Cumberland_ remained to fight the fire, the _Elbe_ stood by till the _Corinthian_ came back from its useless chase. As the _Corinthian_ was a British ship of an allied line, it stayed with the _Cumberland_, and finally brought it into port after the fire had gutted the ship and burned out. Accordingly, the _Elbe_, with the _Cumberland’s_ passengers, reached New York on Saturday afternoon, while the _Corinthian_ was still at sea. The arrest at New York of Roberta Leigh for her high crimes committed in England therefore was postponed till the _Corinthian_ docked. But this arrest was meant to be only postponed. The British government, thoroughly aroused to the need of decisive and drastic measures for the suppression of the suffragist outrages, were determined to show no quarter. The crown officers waited doggedly for the coming of the _Corinthian_ on Monday. Wherefore, on Sunday night, Mr. Andrew Farnham called on Miss Roberta Leigh at the quiet country place of one of her classmates up the Hudson.