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and caught him by the arm. Jak e clutched him. T h e y came
up. Jack thought he had him safe. " I've got yo u /’ he said.
" Don't------ ” But before he couki finish the sentence, Jake
flung his arm around his neck and choked him, pulling him

down under the water, and getting it into his throat and nos­
trils. Jack struggled, and tried to get up, but he could n o t;
jake had him fast. He knew he was drowning. He remem­
bered being down on the bottom of the river and think­

ing that if he could but get Jake to the top again he would
be safe. He thought that the Yankees might save him. He
tried, but Jake had him tight, choking him, He thought
how he had brought him there; he thought of his mother
and father, and that he had not seen his mother that morn­
ing, and had not said his prayers, and then lie did not know

anything more.
The next thing he knew, some one said, " He's all right/'
and he heard confused voices, and was suffering some in his
chest and throat, and he heard his mother's voice, and open­
ing his eyes he was in a tent. She was leaning over him,

crying and kissing him. and there were several gentlemen
around the bed he was on. He was too weak to think much,
but he felt 'd ad that his mother was there. “ I went back
after Jake," he said, faintly.
"Y e s, you did, like a man," said a gentleman in an offi­

cer's uniform, bending over him. 1 W e saw you.” -
Jack turned from him, "Mother," he said, feebly, ‘‘ we
carried the horse back, but------"