“She’ll be drowned!”
“My daughter! Save her! She has a fit!” suddenly cried an old man, rushing from his seat in the shade.
“A fit—that accounts for it,” said Leo. “I’ll save her!”
In another moment he was on the boat’s rail—the next he was over the side. He struck out boldly.
“Take care—she may fight you if she has a fit!” called his partner.
Soon Leo reached the girl’s side. She was about to sink when he came to her support. She lay like one dead.
“I guess the fit’s gone,” he thought, when suddenly she gave a frightful scream and began to tear at his face like an enraged tigress!
It was a position he had not bargained for, and what to do the young gymnast did not know.
“Look out for her!” yelled Carl, as the girl in the water began her attack.
“Keep quiet, please!” gasped Leo to his charge. “I will take you to the boat.”