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"You ought to go to bed," said Paula at length in a low voice to him.
"You need a good night's sleep."
"I'm too tired to sleep," said Barry. "I feel rather rotten, in fact. I
ought to feel very grateful, but somehow I just feel rotten."
"Can one be grateful and feel rotten at the same time?" said Paula,
making talk.
"Behold me," replied Barry. "I know I am grateful, but I do feel rotten.
I don't think I have even thanked you for risking your life for me," he
added, turning toward her.
"Risking my life? Nonsense! I paddled 'round in the canoe for a bit,
till two strong men came to tow me in, and would have, if I had allowed
them. Thank the boys, who got you in time." She shuddered as she spoke.
"I do thank them, and I do feel grateful to them," said Barry. "It was
rather a near thing. You see, I let him grip me. I choked him off my
arms, but he slid down to my thigh, and I could not kick him off. Had to
practically drown him. Even then he hung on."
"Oh, don't speak about it," she said with a shudder, covering her face
with her hands.


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