So please take your seat with Chloe in the stern." "Dan can take one oar, anyhow," Vincent replied; "but I will let you row instead of me.

I am afraid I should make a poor hand of it with only one arm." The boat pushed quietly out.

The river was about a hundred yards wide at this point.

They had taken but a few strokes when Vincent said: "You must row hard, Miss Kingston, or we shall have to swim for it.

The water is coming through the seams fast." The girl and Dan exerted themselves to the utmost; but, short as was the passage, the boat was full almost to the gunwale before they reached the opposite bank, the heat of the sun having caused the planks to open during the months it had been lying ashore.
"This is a wet beginning," Lucy Kingston said, laughing, as she tried to wring the water out of the lower part of her dress.