"I will say, however, that Jennie did meet with one experience, in which her rescuer showed possibly more pluck than Mr.Gordon to-day." The guest looked inquiringly at his host.
"She seems to be destined to be concerned in unpleasant adventures." "Yes; I hope this is the last of them.

What I refer to happened some five or six years ago,--possibly more than that.

At any rate, she was a small girl, crossing the ferry at New York with her mother, when in the crowd and crush, by some means which I never could understand, she fell overboard.

The river was full of floating ice, and she would have been drowned but for the heroism of a boy, who sprang in after her, and, at the risk of his own life, kept her afloat until both could be drawn on board." Tom Gordon felt his face turning scarlet.

He was so disturbed for the moment that he could not frame any words.