"Here's a beauty, Jack " "Hold him, Jamie, till I come " "Come quickly then, old fellow--he's slipping away from me Quick Hang it, the fellow's gone I've missed him, and----" "Splash " The sentence was never finished, for Jamie, stepping too excitedly on a treacherous, moss-covered rock in mid-stream, slipped, and the next instant found himself sitting down, up to the armpits in the water which raced past him like a mill-stream.