Summary

Weigall realizes that someone has fallen into the water. He immediately forgets his fear of the place, and he focuses on helping the person in danger. It appears to be a man who is struggling to free himself from the water’s current. The man clutches at branches and waves a hand vigorously, apparently signaling for help. Weigall immediately tears a long branch from a tree and brings it towards the man. Only the hand is visible. Weigall deduces that the body is likely caught among rocks below the water’s surface.

Weigall guides one end of the branch into the man’s hand. The hand grabs the branch, and Weigall pulls. As the man’s body begins to rise from the water, Weigall slips closer to the edge, and he momentarily worries that he has fallen in. Mist momentarily gathers, then clears...