Chapter 57

Palliser-Yeates managed to get through the gap, and now appeared running strongly for the Doran, which at that point of its course--about half a mile down-stream from Janet and Archie--flowed in a deep-cut but not precipitous channel, much choked with birch and rowan. Numbers Two and Three followed, and also Number One, who had by now seen that there was no need of a rearguard. For a little all four disappeared from sight, and Janet and Archie looked anxiously at each other. Cries, excited cries, were coming up-str…