THE TRAGIC INCIDENT
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Mary did not cry out. She was speechless with fear, and stood with clasped hands, motionless, upon the path.
"She can swim! she can swim!" was the thought that shuttled back and forth in The Fox's brain.
But moment after moment passed and Ruth did not come to the surface. The pool was as calm as before, save for the vanishing rings that broke against the surrounding rocks. Mary held her breath. She began to feel as though it were a dream, and that her school companion had not really fallen into the pool. It must be an hallucination, for Ruth did not come to the surface again!
