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248 from both directions. I will be prepared to swim for it if it comes near enough, and  then the matter will be simple.”

“Aye, but I advise thee to first wash thy face!” responded Jacqueline gaily. “That plague-smitten countenance of thine would  frighten away any rescuers we might encounter!” And so, laughing, Gysbert followed her advice, leaning out of the window  to dabble his hands in the water that now  lapped within a foot of the sill.

Breakfast was about as difficult a matter as any they had to undertake, for everything eatable was downstairs, and it would be worse  than useless to attempt procuring anything  from those water-soaked depths. Beside, they had very little notion as to the whereabouts of the kitchen. So they turned again to the windows to solve their problem, counting it almost certain that eatables of some sort must in due time go sailing by. Their watch was long but not in vain, for in an  hour or so, there hove in sight a loaf of bread