Let us not be too hard on Albert.

He was in the first agony of having reached a hand to save little Katy and missed her.

To come so near that you might have succeeded by straining a nerve a little more somewhere--that is bitterest of all.

If Westcott had only held on a minute! It was with difficulty that Albert and Gray rowed to the shore, where Plausaby met them, and persuaded them to change their clothes.

They were both soon on the shore again, where large fires were blazing, and the old boat that had failed to save little Katy alive, was now in use to recover her body.