mouth was under water more than half the time; he had to raise up to
breathe.... But he fought on.... He began to grow dizzy--there was a
ringing in his ears....

Suddenly he thought he saw, right before him, the face of Kathryn Blair.
He knew that he did not; he thought he did; that was all. Then, suddenly,
his fingers caught a rope; the face was still there; and the rope that he
held led to where it was caught between white, even teeth.

A great wave hit him a buffet, full in the face; it cleared his senses,
for a moment; yet perhaps it was more due to the feel of the rope in his
fingers.... Then he knew that it was she--that the face was real, and the
rope.... Went surging through his mind that she, taking the end of the
sheet in her teeth, had swum to him, and to Schuyler--and that to her
they both owed their lives.

She was beside him, now, swimming strongly. She gripped an arm of the
unconscious Schuyler.... Together, she and Blake, dividing the weight,
slowly, inch by inch, fought their way along the rope. At length they
reached the side of the swamped knockabout.... Blake crawled upon its
slippery deck. He lay for a moment, helpless; she supported Schuyler.
Then he essayed to aid her again; and together they began to lift him out
of the water, and to safety.

Dr. DeLancey, from the after deck of "The Idlesse," had seen the
accident. A minute later, he, John Stuyvesant Schuyler, Thomas Cathcart
Blake, the captain of "The Idlesse," and two sailors were in the
launch.... They reached the side of the knockabout as Blake and Kathryn
were dragging Jack Schuyler from the water; and they took him into the
other boat. Blake, in his father's clutch, followed. At the same time,