Then, straightening up, he threw back his head, and laughed aloud.

But his laughter alarmed the girl, who ran to the door, crying, "What is it, Brian ?" "Look!" he shouted, madly, and pointed toward the river.

"Look, Betty Jo!" Martha Kent, alone in one of the clubhouse boats, was rowing with drunken clumsiness toward the head of the Elbow Rock rapids.
The woman's friends had missed her, and, guessing, from some remark she had made, where she had gone, had sent four men of the party after her; for they realized that she was in no condition to be alone in a boat on the river, particularly on that part of the stream near Auntie Sue's place.

After leaving Brian and Betty Jo, she had gone back to her boat in the eddy at the foot of the garden, and was pulling out into the stream when she saw her friends approaching.

With a drunken laugh, she waved her hand, and began rowing from them directly toward the swift water.