A long fight was necessary to bring the life back into Harry,
by which time Barry was sufficiently recovered to sit up.
"Stay where you are, Barry, until we get this man back to camp," ordered
Knight. "We'll light a bit of a fire for you."
"I'm warm enough," said Barry.
"Warm enough? You may be, but you will be better with a fire, and you
lie beside it till we get you. Don't move now."
"There's the other canoes coming," said Fielding. "They'll make shore
a little lower down. They're all right. Say, she's handling that canoe
like a man!"
"Who?" said Barry.
"Why, Miss Howland," said Fielding. "She was out after you like a shot.
She's a plucky one!"
Barry was on his feet in an instant, watching anxiously the progress
of the canoes, which were being slowly edged across the river in a long
incline toward the shore.
"They'll make it, all right," said Knight, after observing them for a
time. "Don't you worry. Just lie down by the fire. We'll be back in a
jiffy."
In an hour they were all safely back in camp, and sufficiently recovered
to discover the humorous points in the episode.
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