"Thank God!" he breathed. "I'll save you yet!"
CHAPTER VIII
ON THE BREAST OF THE SEA
"Can you keep afloat in this roughness?"
"I think so, now that I have the life preserver. But the rope scared me for a minute. It got wound about my feet."
"I thought so. But we are drifting away from the boats, and should swim back as fast as we can. Can you swim?"
"Yes; better when I get rid of this cloak. Which way is the yacht? I've lost my bearings."
"Behind us over there. Put your hand on my shoulder and I'll take you along until you get your breath. So!"
The girl obeyed implicitly, "as if she were a good, biddable child," thought Jim. There was none of the terrified clutching at a rescuer which sometimes causes disaster to two instead of one. Miss Redmond was badly shocked, it may be; but she was far from being in a panic.