CHAPTER 6 Rescued
CHAPTER 6 Rescued CHAPTER 6 Rescued One of her first tasks on the island was to keep count of the passing days. Each palm tree along the shore was a week. So with a sharp shell she made seven cuts in its bark for each day of the week. She was already on her thirty-third tree. Then, one morning, she spotted the dim shape of a ship sailing through the mist. At long last! Hooray! Her heart leapt. Just as quickly it sank down to her feet. For there was the skull and crossbones fluttering from
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CHAPTER 6 Rescued
CHAPTER 6 Rescued
One of her first tasks on the island was to keep count of the passing days.Each palm tree along the shore was a week.So with a sharp shell she made seven cuts in its bark for each day of the week.
She was already on her thirty-third tree.
Then, one morning, she spotted the dim shape of a ship sailing through the mist.
At long last! Hooray! Her heart leapt.Just as quickly it sank down to her feet.For there was the skull and crossbones fluttering from the ship's mast.
It was the hated Sea Devil, the cause of all her troubles!
Were the pirates returning to make sure she was dead?Maybe Cutthroat could not risk her giving evidence against him.There was nowhere to hide. She stood, waiting for the worst...
Can you think how she must have felt? Poor Grace!
But we weren't feeling too good in the Sea Devil either, I can tell you.We'd been sailing about lost for days. Cutthroat had gone, you see, and none of us could work out our course.Suddenly I saw the island - and it looked sort of familiar.One of the lads cried, 'That's it! That's where our bad luck began.”
And we knew we'd come back to where Cutthroat had thrown Grace overboard. Was she still alive?
Our ship dropped anchor off shore. I sat in a longboat with two other pirates and headed for land.When we reached the island I stepped forward to greet Grace.I could see the poor girl thought we had come to kill her.
