5/15 The thing she threw, whatever it was, was whirled outwards, and then fell into the sea. With a splash, it sank. The knowledge came to him as he heard the splash that it was the little child she had flung away. Another moment, and he would have jumped from the bank; but before he had jumped he heard the elder girl groaning as if in desperate fear, and saw that mother and daughter were grappled together, their figures swaying backwards and forwards in convulsive struggle. He did not doubt that the mother was trying to drown this child also. |