Crossword-Solution: ANK 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

When they were out of sight he turned his face up to the brightening sky and said, aloud: "Bon Dieu, I t'ank you for my sister's life." Pierce Phillips awoke from a cramped and troubled slumber to find himself lying upon a pile of baggage in the stern of a skiff.

Archie remembered afterwards that he had presence of mind enough to get on his feet when they all sang "God Save the King," but it really seemed a dream that Ventnor was shaking hands with him and saying, "I t'ank you, me; I t'ank you.

Those were the rings upon that hand, were they not?” He replaced them on the fingers, then took off one, a royal signet in a cartouche, and read the inscription on the other: “‘Bes Ank, Ank Bes.’ ‘Bes the Living, the Living Bes.’ “Your Ma-Mee had some human vanity about her,” he added.

Afterwards Smith wrote to ask, but the Director-General could only remember that he gave him one of the two rings, and assured him that that inscribed “_Bes Ank, Ank Bes_,” was with Ma-Mee’s other jewels in the Gold Room of the Museum.

Did not “John Darby” call them from their firesides or their beds a dozen times every winter, to scramble out across the shingle? As often as not, there was nothing to be done but drag the dead bodies from the surf; but sometimes the dead revived--some fair-haired, mystic foreigner from the northern seas, who came to and said, “T'ank you,” and nothing else.