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she fell, or rather slipped, and quietly sat
down on some rocks. She still clun0 to the
rod, and she hardly had had her feet
wet. This was what she knew of her own
position. As for Ronald and the lad, they
paid no further heed to her, for they were
seeking to get the coble safe from the
heavy surge; and then, again. she had her
own affairs to attend to, for the salmon,
though it was bliSsfully sulkng after the
first long PUSHES might suddenly make up
its mind for CantripS.
Then Ronald was by her side again,
rather breathleSs.
"You've still got hold of him ? That's
right: but give him his own time. Let
him alone: ! don't want him in here
among the stones in rough water like
this"
And then he said, rather shamefacedly.
81 beg your pardon for gripping We as |
had to do: II thought we should have
been over, and You would have got sorely
wet
"Oh. that's all right" she said. seeking
IN vain amid the whirling waste of waters
for any sign or glimpse of the salmon.
But you YOU must be very wet; why
did YOU Jump into the water -
"Oh. that's nothing, There, let him 90 !
give him his own way Now reel in
bit Quickpr-puicker. That'll do now.'
As soon as she had got the proper strain
on the fish again, she held out her right
hand.
Pull off my glove, please she said,
but still with her eyes intent on the
Whirling waves.
Well, he unbuttoned the long gauntlet,
though the leather was all saturated with
water, but when he tried the fingers. he
could not get them TO yield at ALL so he
had to pull down the gauntlet over the
hand, and haul off the glove by main
force then he put it in his pocket, for
there was no time to waste on ceremony.
There was a sudden steady pull on the
rod, and away went the reel.
"Let him go-ltt him go! All, good
ashland a clean fish too"
Il couldn't see him at all" she com
planned.
Hes a long way out-and good Job
too, ! hope he'll tire himself out there be-
fore we bring him in among the stones"
It's big fish, that one" said the lad
Johnnie, who had drawn near with the
clip.
Moreover the gale was ahating some
what, though the big waves still kept
chasing each other in and springng high
on the rocks. She became more eager
about getting the fish Hitherto she had
been rather excited and bewidered, and
intent only on doing what she was bid
now the prospect of really landing the
salmon had become joyful.
But how shall we ever get him to come
in here ?" she said
He's bound to come If the tackle holds
and Pm thinking he's well hooked or he ID
been of ere now, with all this scurrying
water"
She shifted the rod to her right hand
her left arm was beginning to feel the cSil-
tinued strain.
HAS the other boat been out ," she
asked.
mo, no, "said he, and then he laughed.
at would be a fine thing If we could take
back a good fsh. know well what they
were thinking when we let the boat drift
down the second time-they We're thinking
we had got the line aground, and were in
trouble. And now they Gamma SEQ us; its
little they're thinking that were playing
fish,
eve" and "us," he said, quite natur-
ally; and she, also, had got into the way
OF calling him Ronald-as every one did.
Well, that was a long and stlh tight
with the salmon for whenever it found
that ii was being towed into the shadows,
away it went again, with rush on rush,
so that Miss Carry had her work cut out
for her md had every musclo4of her arms
and back aching,
"Twenty pounds, you'll sec,p she heard
the lad johnnie say to his companion
and Ronald answered him,
would rather than ten sbilliDgs ii
was"
Twenty pounds She knew that this
was rather a rarity on this loch, ten or
eleven pounds being about the
average; and II only she could
capture this apimal-in the teeth OF