Phyllis Alden knelt on the ground on one side of the unconscious girl.  Jack Bolling and an old fisherman knelt opposite her.  The artist, Mr. Brown, was trying to assist in restoring Madge to consciousness.  Phyllis Alden had been drilled in “first aid to the drowning” by her father.  Long experience with the sea had taught the sailor what to do.  But Madge had resisted all their efforts to bring her to consciousness.  She had battled too long with the merciless waves and her strength was gone before the fisherman, coming home in his rowboat, had spied the three figures at the moment when Madge was about to give up the fight.  He had hauled her and Tom inside his boat, and poor Brownie had somehow managed to swim ashore.

On the beach the fisherman found an anxious group of picnickers watching the storm with fearful eyes.  Their fear was changed to horror, however, when the fisherman deposited his ghastly freight on the beach.

Fifteen minutes after being brought to shore Tom Curtis had returned to consciousness.  His first words were for Madge.  Although Tom had been a longer time in the water than his rescuer, his injured arm, which was sprained, but not broken, had prevented him from making so fierce a struggle; therefore he was far less exhausted than was his companion.  To those who watched anxiously for the first faint sign of returning life it seemed hours since the fisherman had laid that still form on the sand.  It was none other than the old fisherman who discovered the faint spot of color which appeared in Madge’s cheeks, then disappeared.  After that the work of resuscitation went on more steadily than ever, and slowly and painfully Madge came back to life.  Strange noises sounded in her ears.  A gigantic weight was pressing upon her chest.  She tried to speak, but it was choking her, crushing her.  She made an heroic effort to throw it off, and then her eyes opened and dimly she beheld her friends.

“She has come back to us.”  Phil’s voice was ineffably tender.  She glanced up and her eyes met those of Jack Bolling.  Forgetting her dislike for him, she smiled.  She remembered only that he was Madge’s cousin.  Jack had always thought Phil ugly, but as he gazed into her big, black eyes and white, serious face, he decided that she had more character than any other girl he had ever met, and he would never forget the splendid effort she had made to save his cousin.

As soon as the work of resuscitation was completed and Madge declared out of danger, Mrs. Curtis insisted that on their return to the mainland her son’s brave little rescuer should be taken to the Belleview Hotel, where she would be able to rest far more comfortably than if carried on board the houseboat.

A yacht was chartered to take the picnic party home.  The sailboat had completely disappeared, and Tom was able to tell only a part of their strange adventure.  From whence the youth whom they had taken on board their boat had come and why he had made off with their boat and left them to drown were questions which no one seemed able to answer.