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At
a
particularly
bad
spot
,
where
a
ledge
of
barely
submerged
rocks
jutted
out
into
the
river
,
Hans
cast
off
the
rope
,
and
,
while
Thornton
poled
the
boat
out
into
the
stream
,
ran
down
the
bank
with
the
end
in
his
hand
to
snub
the
boat
when
it
had
cleared
the
ledge
.
This
it
did
,
and
was
flying
down-stream
in
a
current
as
swift
as
a
mill-race
,
when
Hans
checked
it
with
the
rope
and
checked
too
suddenly
.
The
boat
flirted
over
and
snubbed
in
to
the
bank
bottom
up
,
while
Thornton
,
flung
sheer
out
of
it
,
was
carried
down-stream
toward
the
worst
part
of
the
rapids
,
a
stretch
of
wild
water
in
which
no
swimmer
could
live
.
Buck
had
sprung
in
on
the
instant
;
and
at
the
end
of
three
hundred
yards
,
amid
a
mad
swirl
of
water
,
he
overhauled
Thornton
.
When
he
felt
him
grasp
his
tail
,
Buck
headed
for
the
bank
,
swimming
with
all
his
splendid
strength
.
But
the
progress
shoreward
was
slow
;
the
progress
down-stream
amazingly
rapid
.
From
below
came
the
fatal
roaring
where
the
wild
current
went
wilder
and
was
rent
in
shreds
and
spray
by
the
rocks
which
thrust
through
like
the
teeth
of
an
enormous
comb
.
The
suck
of
the
water
as
it
took
the
beginning
of
the
last
steep
pitch
was
frightful
,
and
Thornton
knew
that
the
shore
was
impossible
.
He
scraped
furiously
over
a
rock
,
bruised
across
a
second
,
and
struck
a
third
with
crushing
force
.
He
clutched
its
slippery
top
with
both
hands
,
releasing
Buck
,
and
above
the
roar
of
the
churning
water
shouted
:
"
Go
,
Buck
!
Go
!
"
Buck
could
not
hold
his
own
,
and
swept
on
down-stream
,
struggling
desperately
,
but
unable
to
win
back
.
When
he
heard
Thornton
's
command
repeated
,
he
partly
reared
out
of
the
water
,
throwing
his
head
high
,
as
though
for
a
last
look
,
then
turned
obediently
toward
the
bank
.
He
swam
powerfully
and
was
dragged
ashore
by
Pete
and
Hans
at
the
very
point
where
swimming
ceased
to
be
possible
and
destruction
began
.
They
knew
that
the
time
a
man
could
cling
to
a
slippery
rock
in
the
face
of
that
driving
current
was
a
matter
of
minutes
,
and
they
ran
as
fast
as
they
could
up
the
bank
to
a
point
far
above
where
Thornton
was
hanging
on
.
They
attached
the
line
with
which
they
had
been
snubbing
the
boat
to
Buck
's
neck
and
shoulders
,
being
careful
that
it
should
neither
strangle
him
nor
impede
his
swimming
,
and
launched
him
into
the
stream
.
He
struck
out
boldly
,
but
not
straight
enough
into
the
stream
.
He
discovered
the
mistake
too
late
,
when
Thornton
was
abreast
of
him
and
a
bare
half-dozen
strokes
away
while
he
was
being
carried
helplessly
past
.
Hans
promptly
snubbed
with
the
rope
,
as
though
Buck
were
a
boat
.
The
rope
thus
tightening
on
him
in
the
sweep
of
the
current
,
he
was
jerked
under
the
surface
,
and
under
the
surface
he
remained
till
his
body
struck
against
the
bank
and
he
was
hauled
out
.
He
was
half
drowned
,
and
Hans
and
Pete
threw
themselves
upon
him
,
pounding
the
breath
into
him
and
the
water
out
of
him
.
He
staggered
to
his
feet
and
fell
down
.
The
faint
sound
of
Thornton
's
voice
came
to
them
,
and
though
they
could
not
make
out
the
words
of
it
,
they
knew
that
he
was
in
his
extremity
.
His
master
's
voice
acted
on
Buck
like
an
electric
shock
.
He
sprang
to
his
feet
and
ran
up
the
bank
ahead
of
the
men
to
the
point
of
his
previous
departure
.
Again
the
rope
was
attached
and
he
was
launched
,
and
again
he
struck
out
,
but
this
time
straight
into
the
stream
.
He
had
miscalculated
once
,
but
he
would
not
be
guilty
of
it
a
second
time
.
Hans
paid
out
the
rope
,
permitting
no
slack
,
while
Pete
kept
it
clear
of
coils
.
Buck
held
on
till
he
was
on
a
line
straight
above
Thornton
;
then
he
turned
,
and
with
the
speed
of
an
express
train
headed
down
upon
him
.
Thornton
saw
him
coming
,
and
,
as
Buck
struck
him
like
a
battering
ram
,
with
the
whole
force
of
the
current
behind
him
,
he
reached
up
and
closed
with
both
arms
around
the
shaggy
neck
.
Hans
snubbed
the
rope
around
the
tree
,
and
Buck
and
Thornton
were
jerked
under
the
water
.
Strangling
,
suffocating
,
sometimes
one
uppermost
and
sometimes
the
other
,
dragging
over
the
jagged
bottom
,
smashing
against
rocks
and
snags
,
they
veered
in
to
the
bank
.
Thornton
came
to
,
belly
downward
and
being
violently
propelled
back
and
forth
across
a
drift
log
by
Hans
and
Pete
.
His
first
glance
was
for
Buck
,
over
whose
limp
and
apparently
lifeless
body
Nig
was
setting
up
a
howl
,
while
Skeet
was
licking
the
wet
face
and
closed
eyes
.
Thornton
was
himself
bruised
and
battered
,
and
he
went
carefully
over
Buck
's
body
,
when
he
had
been
brought
around
,
finding
three
broken
ribs
.
