Mrs.Jenkin has barely enough clothes for herself, so I am certain she could not supply my needs; and no garments of Stee's would be big enough for this--this gentleman." "My name is Jervis Ferrars," put in the stranger, seeing her embarrassment and hastening to relieve it.
"Thank you!" murmured Katherine, a flush coming into her cheeks which made her charming despite her bedraggled condition.

Then she went on: "I think it will be better for you to come with us right up to Roaring Water Portage, because then we can lend you some of Father's clothes: he is tall, and they will about fit you, I should think; and it is so very difficult to get what one wants at Seal Cove." "That I have already proved.

But it was very kind of you to come and rescue me.

I owe my life to you," the stranger said, with a sudden thrill of feeling in his voice.
Katherine flushed more brightly than before.

"We thought it was Oily Dave whom we were trying to save," she said, with a faint ripple of laughter.