CHAPTER XIV

As _Easy Money_ spun in the second whirlpool Julie instinctively closed her eyes. She could do nothing now but grip the spaniel and the side of the boat and pray that it might keep right side up as it went over the falls. If it did she would be quite safe, if it didn’t—she shivered. It couldn’t be her time to die. Die! She fought back the thought. One didn’t pull through crises by folding one’s hands in resignation, she reminded herself; one fought till one’s last breath. Was that a shout? For the first time she re…