Suddenly, however, Lucy started from her bed. What was that sound?
surely it was the slamming of the front door. While she was listening
she saw something which made her heart beat fast. It was a rocket which
shot by her window. Another and another followed. Lucy sprang out of bed
and began to dress. There was hardly a child in Spehunket who did not
know the terrible meaning of the rocket soaring into the air in the
dead of night.
[Illustration: Lucy wakes up Ollie]
Lucy hastily slipped on her clothes, and then, going back to the bed,
she took Ollie's hand and called softly,
"Ollie, Ollie! wake up. There is a wreck, and I think some of the people
have gone down to the beach. Don't you want to go too?"
Ollie started up, looking frightened at being so suddenly roused. "What
is it? what is it?" she asked excitedly. "What is the matter?"
"There is a wreck, Ollie," said Lucy, "and the men at the life-saving
station are hard at work. Oh, Ollie! just think of the poor things
clinging to the ship, and expecting every moment to go down! I must go
down there and see if I can't do something to help."
By this time Ollie was wide awake, and as interested as Lucy. It did not
take her long to dress, and in a few minutes they went softly
down-stairs.
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