Of course, the stream took me up a long way.

I only came up once, on my back, took a breath, and went down again, and the second time I was right under the bank and well out of sight, though I could hear them talking above me.

It was just when I looked round, then, that I saw them throwing stones and firing into the middle of the river, two hundred yards lower down, and after that I had only to keep on swimming under water, close to the bank." "And that is how ye managed it! It was a grand thought, entirely, to swim back to us.

I never thought of that.

I was most afraid you would go for the opposite shore, and there were plenty had gathered there, ready to seize you.