King grabbed for the boat, but it slipped away from him, and the pair went down again.
At this Marjorie screamed.

She had been trying to be brave, yet the sight of her brother and sister being, as she feared, drowned, was too much for her.
"Hush up, Marjorie!" cried Molly.

"You just keep still and hang on! I can swim!" With an eel-like agility Molly let go of the boat, and darted through the water.

She was really a good swimmer, and her thin, muscular little limbs struck out frantically in all directions.

Diving swiftly, she bumped against Kitty, and grasping her arm firmly, she began to tread water rapidly.