"Suppose there is no one there ?" She paused for an instant and then ran on faster than before.
"I shall find help over there, I know I shall," she thought as she hurried over the frozen ground and made straight for the ice house.

There was no time to be lost.

Tom and Julia were liable to be sucked under and drowned while she was looking for help.
Grace pushed resolutely on.

In the meantime hardly four minutes had really elapsed since the skaters had tumbled into the water.
On the other side of the ice house she came abruptly upon a man engaged in loading a child's wagon with chips of wood.
"Help!" cried Grace.

"Help! Some people have broken through the ice.