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Miss Erroll sat very still; but the pulse within her was not still.
When the canoe suddenly capsized, Gladys jumped, but Selwyn went with it, boat and man tumbling into the tumult over and over; and the usual laughter from the onlookers rang out, and a dozen young people rushed into the surf to right the canoe and push it out into the surf again and clamber into it.
Gerald was among the number; Gladys swam toward it, beckoning imperiously to Selwyn; but he had his back to the sea and was moving slowly out through the flat swirling ebb.

And as Eileen looked, she saw a dark streak leap across his face--saw him stoop and wash it off and stand, looking blindly about, while again the sudden dark line criss-crossed his face from temple to chin, and spread wider like a stain.
"Philip!" she called, springing to her feet and scarcely knowing that she had spoken.
He heard her, and came toward her in a halting, dazed way, stopping twice to cleanse his face of the bright blood that streaked it.
"It's nothing," he said--"the infernal thing hit me.

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