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An hour or two more they spent in gliding up the narrow channel of that salt-water swamp, which at high tide appeared so glittering from the Thornhurst road. When approached, it was a muddy chaos, desolate as an uninhabited world. They went as far up-stream as the little steamer could run, and then landed on the bank which abutted on some rushy meadows.
There are spare things in the tent." "Oh, no." He threw himself down beside her. "It's warm in the sun." For an hour they watched the two men, who had become mere specks of black in the distance; for they had managed to gain the middle of the river and at the same time had worked nearly a mile up-stream.
"It will be a frightful loss," said Jack. "It lies between that and being scuppered ourselves," said Dent. "Yes, yes, Jim, of course," cried Jack. "Your plan is the best." It was carried out at once. The four men went into the ford in a bunch, with a pony up stream and a pony down stream. Jack was leading the up-stream pony, Buck the down-stream animal, while Jim and the Burman were between them.
"He has been swimming about somewhere up-stream, and has scented us, and dived. I have heard one do that a dozen times in the night, if he detected the presence of man; but it's very unusual in the daytime, for they rarely venture out in broad light.
Where the turbid yellow flood began to rise and 'collect' a boatman's phrase the men would scramble ashore, and, by means of a long tump-line tied not to the prow, which would send her sidling to the middle of the first thwart, would tow their craft slowly up-stream.
The local tradition ascribes the site of the actual signature to "Magna Charta" island an eyot just up-stream from the field, now called Runnymede, but neither in tradition nor in recorded history can this detail be fixed with any exactitude.
Indeed, if we knew all that our bodies know, what mysteries would be revealed to us! Life goes up-stream goes against the tendency to a static equilibrium in matter; decay and death go down. What is it in the body that struggles against poisons and seeks to neutralize their effects? What is it that protects the body against a second attack of certain diseases, making it immune?
I thought of the Maid's desire, and of the ransom of so great a squire as Glasdale, and then I threw my hands up to dive, and leaped head foremost into the water. Deep down I plunged, and swam far under water, to avoid a stroke from floating timber, and then I rose and glanced up-stream.
"You know I didn't paddle three hundred miles up-stream to talk to him! Never in my life had I anything so hard to go through with as the last two hours. I didn't dare look at you for fear of giving myself away." There was an extraordinary quality of passion in the simple words. Colina felt faint and terrified. What was one to do with a man like this! She mounted her queenliest manner.
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