About the light we had no doubt; but it was scarcely possible that he could have heard any sound.  None, at all events, had reached our ears. A few moments before, we had been prepared to die; now life, with its many fancied advantages, occupied all our thoughts.  With intense eagerness we looked towards the spot whence the rocket had ascended. All was darkness.  Suddenly a light burst forth; of intense brightness it seemed, as it shed its rays over the foam-sprinkled, dancing water, and showed us clearly the spars, and rigging, and white canvas of the schooner.  We shouted long and lustily, but we were too far off to be heard.  Our hearts sunk, for she was standing away from us.  Once more we shouted.  Our shout was answered from a different direction from that where we had seen the schooner.  Earnestly we listened.  We could distinguish, too, the loud barking of a dog.