It was thus kept in a rotary motion, making the sound which he had mistaken for the paddling of a canoeman.

With this discovery departed all thought of human help from that quarter.
But with the dissipating of the illusion came a new hope.

Charlton turned the head of the horse back and drove him out of the water, or at least to a part of the meadow where the overflowed water did not reach to his knees.

Here he tied him to a tree, and told Katy she must stay alone until he should cross the stream and find help, if help there should be, and return.

It might take him half an hour.