“Christmas morning,” he sobbed out as the waves rolled him over.  “Oh, my God!”

He felt himself going down.  All at once the waters seemed to grow still.  It was suddenly calm.  He was no longer cold.  He threw his head up for one last look at the sky and life and then he hung, as it were, suspended in some strange way.  He saw a figure walking across the smooth of the seas as it had been solid ground.  The figure drew nearer, the wind seemed to have died away, but the draperies that shrouded it swung gently as they would while a man walked along.  The face he saw dimly, vaguely, but there was light in it somehow.  It came slowly nearer.

“Christmas morning,” whispered the boy.

The hand of the figure reached down.  It caught the boy’s right arm.  He was lifted up.

“Home and Christmas morning,” whispered the boy, closing his eyes.

The moonlight broke through a cloud and fell upon him.  A wave rolled over him and the sea was empty as before.

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He that hath eyes to see, let him see!

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