Hold steady while I step the mast." Fortunately the spar was not a heavy one.

Except for the roll of the boat I could have handled it alone, but fearful of capsizing, I lashed the oar into position, and she helped me steady it down until it rested solidly in the socket.

Our eyes met.
"You are not so frightened now." "Not when I am busy; it--it was being left alone, and--and thought of that drowned man." "Of course, but my being here makes a difference ?" "Always," she confessed frankly.

"Somehow I can never be afraid with you.

But--but what shall we do now ?" "I hardly know what to put you at--oh, yes, here is a tin, and you can bail out this water sloshing about in the bottom.