The poor fellow had been ducked in the water and was shaking from head to feet from cold.
"We'll soon have you ashore, Gus!" he called out.

"Keep up your courage." "I--I can't hold on much longer!" was the gasped-out reply.

"I am free--freezing to de--death!" At that moment a blast of air came sweeping across the lake.

It caught the sail of the iceboat and tilted the craft over in the water.
"Oh! oh!" screamed Coulter, and then, as the iceboat whirled around, the exhausted cadet lost his grip and commenced to slip slowly downward.
Soon he was in the water up to his shoulders.
"Save me!" he yelled.

"Oh, Ruddy, don't let me drown! Please sa--save m--me! Please!" And then of a sudden his head went under out of sight! Jack was for the moment struck dumb with horror.