27 Apr As he experienced your master his end, Buck went to your financial, swimming with all of their joyous strength
Buck cannot keep his or her own, and you may swept into the off-stream, struggling desperately, however, unable to regain
On a really crappy location, where a good ledge out-of rarely submerged stones jutted aside toward river, Hans cast off the latest rope, and you will, whenever you are Thornton poled the new vessel out towards the weight, ran along the bank on the bring about his hands so you can snub the new motorboat if this had eliminated the ledge. Which they performed, and you will are flying down-weight from inside the a recent because the quick as a factory-race, when Hans checked they to the rope and you may checked too instantly. The fresh ship flirted over and snubbed inside bank base right up, if you're Thornton, flung natural from the jawhorse, is transmitted off-weight into the fresh new terrible a portion of the rapids, an increase out of crazy drinking water in which zero swimmer you will definitely real time.
Again the fresh rope is actually affixed and then he was released, and again he hit aside, but this time directly into this new load
Dollars had sprung when you look at the toward quick; at the conclusion 3 hundred yards, in the middle of an angry swirl from water, he overhauled Thornton.