But he was up again, and tugging at Hughie's hands, he cried: "Don't, Hughie! let go! I'll pull you out.

Let go!" But Hughie, half-insensible with terror and with the water he had gulped in, clung with a death-grip.
"Hughie!" gasped Ranald, "you'll drown us both.

Oh, Hughie man, let me pull you out, can't you ?" Something in the tone caught Hughie's ear, and he loosed his hold, and Ranald, taking him under the chin, looked round for the board.
By this time Don Cameron was in the water and working the board slowly toward the gasping boys.

But now a new danger threatened.

The current had gradually carried them toward the log jam, under which the water sucked to the falls below.