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Anxiously she peered, now full awake Then she turned to Allan

"Can't we sail away?"

"Not enough wind We ht possibly row out of the current, and--and perhaps--"

"Give me one of the sweeps quick, quick!"

He put the sweeps out No sooner had he braced hiainst the heavy bar than she, too, was pulling hard

"Not too strong at first, dear," he cautioned "Don't use up all your strength in the first few ht for it!"

"I'm in it with you--till the end--whichever way it ends," she answered; and in the nificent body

The yawl came round slowly till it was crosswise to the current, headed toward the an to htly impeded it

Stern whipped out his knife and slashed the sheets of platted rush The sail crumpled, crackled and slid down; and now under a bare pole the boat cradled slowly ahead transversely across the foa toward the dim vapor-swirls away to the northeast

No as spoken now Both Beatrice and Stern lay to the sweeps; both braced the, powerful stroke Yet Stern could see that, at the rate of progress they were ain ten feet while the current was carrying theht, yet still he fought Still Beatrice fought for life, too, there by his side Human instinct, the will to live, drove them on, on, where both understood there was no hope

For now already the current had quickened stillup fro rush of waters had already reached a speed greater than that of the wind itself No longer the stars tre, broken, the swift current foaulfs and crests of sickening velocity

And whirlpools now began to for about with sickening violence

"Ro!" Stern cried none the less And his muscles bunched and hardened with the labor; his veins stood out, and sweat dropped from his brow, ran into his eyes, and all but blinded hiht Stern heard her breath, gasping and quick, above the roar and swash of the e, and a kind of mad exultation, a defiance of it all