They soon swam across to the other side, left them there, and returned.
"The water is bitterly cold for the girls," Oswald said, as they swam across together.
"It is, master, but they will only be in it for a minute, and they will soon be warm again." "Now, girls." "We have just heard the sound of horses in the distance, Oswald," Janet said.
He listened.
"Sound travels far, this still night," he said; "they can only just have started.

We shall be across long before they come along.
"Now, Jessie, we will take you first.

The stream runs strongly, and it were best that you went over separately.

All you have to do is to put a hand on a shoulder of each of us.

Come along." "I will carry her till we get into deep water," Roger said, catching the girl up in his arms, and running into the stream.
Jessie gasped, as the water reached her.
"It will be over in a minute," Oswald said encouragingly.