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Once, a long tih the Chute It had horrified her then She re for its victims As they drew nearer to it, Kent told her more about it Only now and then was a life lost there now, he said At the reat, knife-like rock, like a dragon's tooth, that cut the Chute into two roaring channels If a scow kept to the left-hand channel it was safe There would be a e, but that roaring of the Chute, he told her, was like the barking of a hareable, or hit the Dragon's Tooth, or ht-hand channel instead of the left, was there tragedy There was that delightful little note of laughter in Marette's throat when Kent told her that

"You s doesn't happen, we'll get through safely?"

"None of them is possible--with us," he corrected hi to hit the rock, and we'll make the left-hand channel so smoothly you won't knohen it happens" He sh it a hundred times," he said

He listened Then, suddenly, he drew out his watch It was a quarter of four Marette's ears caught what he heard In the air was a low, tre slowly but steadily He nodded when she looked at him, the question in her eyes

"The rapids at the head of the Chute!" he cried, his voice vibrant with joy "We've beat the around a bend, and the white spume of the rapids lay half a an to race with theht on the sweep to keep the scow in mid-channel

"We're safe," he repeated "Do you understand, Marette? WE'RE SAFE!"

He was speaking the words for which she had waited, was telling her that at last the hour had coave the thee that had co at hi back in the direction frorehite