There was no acknowledgment of his message. He held the receiver above the level of the waters in breathless expectancy, knowing that if water entered the box its sensibility would at once be destroyed.
A weather forecast was given out from the Air Ministry, followed by an amateur in London with bad modulation trying to call a fellow amateur in Liverpool, but no acknowledgment from the girl he loved and from whom he had been so rudely parted.
Would she ever get his message of distress? His heart sank when he knew that the chance was so small.
Truly his enemies held him powerless, and their intention was that he should either starve or drown!
He had hoped against hope, until he, alas! gave up.
The river was still rising and very soon the flood must engulf him!