The woman an' the children are clean tuckered out, an' without this boat we could never hev got them back.

Now it's jest a question o' rowin' an' fightin'." "Paul and I will pull her out to the edge of the clear water," said Henry, "while you can go back and tell the others, Sol." "That just suits a lazy man," said Sol, and he walked away jauntily.
Under his apparent frivolity he concealed his joy at the find, which he knew to be of such vast importance.

He approached the dusky group, and his really tender heart was stirred with pity for the rescued captives.
Long Jim and Silent Tom held the smaller two on their shoulders, but the older ones and the woman, also, had fallen asleep.

Sol, in order to conceal his emotion, strode up rather roughly.

Mary Newton awoke.
"Did you find anything ?" she asked.
"Find anything ?" repeated Shif'less Sol.