But even as he looked Joel was delighted to see Clausen's legs move and hear his weak voice speaking to the professor.

Then the boat was rowed in, the occupants panting with their hurried pull from the boathouse, and Joel clambered aboard, disdaining the proffered help of West and others, and Clausen was lifted to a seat in the bow.
On the way up river Joel told how it happened, West throwing in an eager word here and there, and Clausen in a low whisper explaining that the shell had struck on a sunken rock or snag when passing the island, and had begun to sink almost immediately.
"And Cloud ?" asked Professor Gibbs.

There was no reply from either Joel or Clausen or-West.

Only one of the rowers answered coldly: "He's safe.

I saw him on the path near the Society Building.