But she gave the chief place to Katy and her own appearance.

And so when the blow had come it was a severe one.

At midnight, Albert went back to try to comfort his mother, and received patiently all her weeping upbraidings of him for letting his sister go in the boat, he might have known it was not safe.

And then he hastened back again to the water, and watched the men in the boat still dragging without result.

Everybody on the shore knew just where the "Lady of the Lake" had capsized, and if accurate information, plentifully given, could have helped to find the bodies, it would soon have been accomplished.