Their common anxiety had furnished the occasion for the healing of the breach that for a year and more had held these friends apart.
With voluble enthusiasm Mr.Penny welcomed them, plunging into a graphic account of their struggle with the storm till happily they came upon the dogs, who led them to Kalman and his camp.

But French, brushing him aside, strode past to where, trembling and speechless, Marjorie stood, and then, taking her in his arms, he whispered many times in her ears, "Thank God, little girl, you are safe." And Marjorie, putting her arms around Jack's neck, whispered through radiant tears, "It was Kalman, Jack.

Don't listen to yon gommeril.
It was Kalman saved us; and oh, Jack, he is just lovely!" And Jack, patting her cheek, said, "I know all about him." "Do you, indeed ?" she answered, with a knowing smile.

"I doubt.
But oh! he has broken his foot or something.

And oh, Jack, he has got a mine!" And Jack, not knowing what she meant, looked curiously into her face and wondered, till Brown, examining Kalman's foot and finding a broken bone, exclaimed wrathfully, "Say, boy, you don't tell me you have been walking on this foot ?" But Kalman answered nothing.
"He came for me--for us, Mr.Brown, through that awful storm," cried Marjorie penitently; "and is it broken?
Oh, Kalman, how could you ?" But Kalman still answered nothing.