Then to Rod's surprise the strange men lifted the girl
carefully out of the yacht into the tender, and when they had reached
the shore, one of the men carried her in his arms up to the Anchorage.
"Too bad she got hurt," Rod mused, as he walked home, for it was
getting late. "I wonder what happened to her."
That evening he told Parson Dan and Mrs. Royal all about his experience
that afternoon, the wreck, and the girl who had been carried into the
house.
"I must go over in the morning and learn all about it," the clergyman
remarked when he had heard the story. "There may be something that I
can do to help."
Rod lay awake for a long time that night. He could not get the girl
with the golden hair and wonderful eyes out of his mind. When at last
he did go to sleep, he dreamed that she was struggling in the water,
and that he had jumped off the _Roaring Bess_ to save her.
CHAPTER IX
WHYN
Next morning Parson Dan and Rod started for the Anchorage. Rod was
more quiet than usual, and walked along the road without any of his
ordinary capers. His cheeks were flushed, and his eyes shone with
excitement. His steps, too, were quick, and his companion found it
difficult to keep pace with him.
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