46 Feathers frowned so heavily that his eyes almost vanished beneath their shaggy brows.
"All this because I pulled you out of two feet of water?" he growled.
Tears swam into her eyes.
"It was a good deal more than two feet of water, and you know it was! And—and—it isn't anything to do with that at all! It's just you—you yourself! I should like to have you for a friend."
There was a little silence, then Feathers held out his hand.
CHAPTER V
"For all the world to my fond heart means you,
And there is nothing left when you are gone."
MARIE'S narrow escape from death did her one good turn—it sealed her friendship with Feathers, and in the days that followed she owed almost everything to him.