He had fought, and had been overpowered.
He had tried to give me warning.

His last words had been for me to fly--to fly: yes, for he well knew that it was better far for me to go to death through the raging torrent than to meet the fate which had fallen upon himself.

For him there was now no more hope.

That he was lost was plain.

If he were still alive he would call to me; but his voice had been silenced for some time.