"Una! Una! &Una!^ Ac-ci-dent!
Tr-rain accident! Gone through--through
into--the--lake!" moaned
Pemrose, half stunned, yet conscious, as
she was ten seconds before, that they
had been crossing frozen water.

Water! A pale pond, now plainly
seen through awful, swirling, wave-*blocked
window-gaps! Yet across its wan
and shattering crust there shone a trail
of fire, red fire, heart fire--vivid at that
moment as the Thunder Bird's pink tail
feathers switching through the space of
horror--and somewhere in that stretched
consciousness which is beyond thinking,
Toandoah's daughter knew that it was
the Camp Fire training in presence of
mind.

"Una! M-mer-rcy! Una! Water's
r-rushing in-n--in so fast--through
windows--doors ahead--m-may dr-rown
right here, 'less we can f-fight it--get out,"
was her struggling cry as, paddling desperately
like a little dog, she found herself
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