His paws had ceased to operate and he had given himself up entirely to his fate.

But Neewa came up again, and Miki followed, like a bobber.

He was about to gasp his last gasp when the force of the current, as it swung out of the whirlpool, flung Neewa upon a bit of partly submerged driftage, and in a wild and strenuous effort to make himself safe Neewa dragged Miki's head out of water so that the pup hung at the edge of the driftage like a hangman's victim at the end of his rope..