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 a very long time traveling through them; it was really only twelve or fifteen minutes, but it seemed much longer than the two hours' run he had made before the hounds. But all hard things come to an end for those who have courage and endure. A good fighter usually sees the end of the battle. So Redcoat's plank finally swept out of the last of the whirlpools into comparatively calm water, and a quarter of a mile further down stream it lodged upon an island. When Redcoat first tried to free himself from the plank he found he could not move, but after half an hour his body heat thawed the frozen sleet upon his belly and he was enabled to go ashore on the island. Here he hid in the underbrush and rested for the balance of the day, and just before night closed down he swam ashore at a point where the island was not far from the mainland and the following day he made his way cautiously back to his mountain. His confidence was somewhat shaken and he was not eager for another run before the hounds and horsemen. But, once again he made