While Darrin's mind was fully alive to the situation Page, a gallant fellow at heart, and thoroughly brave, was now unwittingly carrying his comrade down with him to death.
Nor, in the first moments, did any of the other midshipmen note the tragic happening.
It was not long, however, before Dan Dalzell's agonized query shot over the waters: "Where's grand old Darrin ?" Dan groaned with his helplessness.

For Dan was, at that instant, holding up one of the poor swimmers, to leave whom would be to abandon him to death..