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Dizzy, half-choked with water, blinded and almost exhausted Harry, with the tenacity of a bull dog, still clung tenaciously to the one idea: "Try-and-make-the-rock. Try-and-make-the-rock." Suddenly, he was flung against a hard substance. With outstretched fingers he clutched at the slimy surface as of what he realized was the end of his journey at last.
No the instinct of self-preservation is strongest when a human being is in the direst need, and so it was that in Harry's mind one thought kept hammering away like the strokes of a tolling bell. "Try-and-make-the-rock. Try-and-make-the-rock." Frank's insistence had done this much. It had caused the boy to recollect the one hope of salvation that the desperate situation held out.
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