'I will,' I exclaimed, and in an instant I had sprang over the railing into the boiling current." "Weren't you frightened to death ?" asked the old lady.

"Could you swim ?" "Of course I could.

More than once I have swum all the way from New York to Brooklyn.

I caught Mr.Clayton by the collar, as he was sinking for the third time, and shouted to a boatman near by to come to my help.

Well, there isn't much more to tell.