“Save him! Oh! save him!”
Frank was startled. His first thought was that the minister, in a fit of desperation, had thrown himself into the lake; but the moment he turned his head, he saw this was not true, for Elder Jones was still there.
The man and girl had leaped to their feet and were looking over the stern of the steamer. Frank looked back along the wake made by the boat, and he saw the little black and tan dog bobbing in the water like a cork.
Then a remarkable thing happened.
Having made a frantic appeal to her companion, the girl saw he had no thought of taking any kind of risk in order to save the little dog, and, the next moment, she leaped upon the seat and dived headlong over the rail into the water!
CHAPTER XII.
FRANK TO THE RESCUE.
Elder Jones made a wild grab at the girl just as she leaped over the rail, but he failed to catch hold of her.
“Merciful goodness!”