<P> Meanwhile, Dicky, Emmeline, and Hannah row their lifeboat to the place where they had once lived with Paddy as children . Emmeline breaks a branch off the deadly arita plant as Dicky cuts bananas on the shore . While in the boat with her son, Emmeline fails to notice that Hannah has tossed one of the oars into the sea . The tide comes in and sweeps the boat into the lagoon, leaving Emmeline and Hannah stranded . As Dicky swims to them, he is pursued by a shark . Emmeline strikes the shark with the remaining oar, earning Dicky time to climb into the boat safely . </P> <P> Although they are not far from shore, the trio cannot get back without the oars and they are unable to retrieve them from the water because of the shark . The boat is then caught in the current and drifts out to sea; all the while Emmeline still grasps the arita branch . </P> <P> Sometime later, Arthur's ship comes across the lifeboat and finds the three unconscious but still breathing . The arita branch is now bare save for one berry . Arthur asks, "Are they dead?" and the captain replies, "No, sir . They are asleep ." The ambiguous ending leaves it uncertain whether or not they can be revived . </P> <Ul> <Li> Emmeline Lestrange, a shipwrecked orphan, the heroine </Li> <Li> Dicky Lestrange, Emmeline's cousin, the hero </Li> <Li> Paddy Button, the galley cook of the wrecked ship </Li> <Li> Arthur Lestrange, Dicky's father and Emmeline's uncle </Li> <Li> Hannah, Dicky and Emmeline's son </Li> </Ul>

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