dead hand

. It is needless to say that the dead steersman has been reverently removed from the place where he held his honourable watch and ward till death⁠—a steadfastness as noble as that of the young Casabianca⁠—and placed in the mortuary to await inquest.

Already the sudden storm is passing, and its fierceness is abating; crowds are scattering homeward, and the sky is beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds. I shall send, in time for your next issue, further details of the derelict ship which found her way so miraculously into harbour in the storm.

Cutting from The Dailygraph , 8 August