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While
these
hasty
actions
were
in
progress
here
,
Venn
and
Thomasin
had
been
toiling
through
the
lower
corner
of
the
heath
in
the
direction
of
the
light
.
They
had
not
been
near
enough
to
the
river
to
hear
the
plunge
,
but
they
saw
the
removal
of
the
carriage
lamp
,
and
watched
its
motion
into
the
mead
.
As
soon
as
they
reached
the
car
and
horse
Venn
guessed
that
something
new
was
amiss
,
and
hastened
to
follow
in
the
course
of
the
moving
light
.
Venn
walked
faster
than
Thomasin
,
and
came
to
the
weir
alone
.
The
lamp
placed
against
the
post
by
Clym
still
shone
across
the
water
,
and
the
reddleman
observed
something
floating
motionless
.
Being
encumbered
with
the
infant
,
he
ran
back
to
meet
Thomasin
.
“
Take
the
baby
,
please
,
Mrs
.
Wildeve
,
”
he
said
hastily
.
“
Run
home
with
her
,
call
the
stable
lad
,
and
make
him
send
down
to
me
any
men
who
may
be
living
near
.
Somebody
has
fallen
into
the
weir
.
”
Thomasin
took
the
child
and
ran
.
When
she
came
to
the
covered
car
the
horse
,
though
fresh
from
the
stable
,
was
standing
perfectly
still
,
as
if
conscious
of
misfortune
.
She
saw
for
the
first
time
whose
it
was
.
She
nearly
fainted
,
and
would
have
been
unable
to
proceed
another
step
but
that
the
necessity
of
preserving
the
little
girl
from
harm
nerved
her
to
an
amazing
self
-
control
.
In
this
agony
of
suspense
she
entered
the
house
,
put
the
baby
in
a
place
of
safety
,
woke
the
lad
and
the
female
domestic
,
and
ran
out
to
give
the
alarm
at
the
nearest
cottage
.
Diggory
,
having
returned
to
the
brink
of
the
pool
,
observed
that
the
small
upper
hatches
or
floats
were
withdrawn
.
He
found
one
of
these
lying
upon
the
grass
,
and
taking
it
under
one
arm
,
and
with
his
lantern
in
his
hand
,
entered
at
the
bottom
of
the
pool
as
Clym
had
done
.
As
soon
as
he
began
to
be
in
deep
water
he
flung
himself
across
the
hatch
;
thus
supported
he
was
able
to
keep
afloat
as
long
as
he
chose
,
holding
the
lantern
aloft
with
his
disengaged
hand
.
Propelled
by
his
feet
,
he
steered
round
and
round
the
pool
,
ascending
each
time
by
one
of
the
back
streams
and
descending
in
the
middle
of
the
current
.
At
first
he
could
see
nothing
.
Then
amidst
the
glistening
of
the
whirlpools
and
the
white
clots
of
foam
he
distinguished
a
woman
’
s
bonnet
floating
alone
.
His
search
was
now
under
the
left
wall
,
when
something
came
to
the
surface
almost
close
beside
him
.
It
was
not
,
as
he
had
expected
,
a
woman
,
but
a
man
.
The
reddleman
put
the
ring
of
the
lantern
between
his
teeth
,
seized
the
floating
man
by
the
collar
,
and
,
holding
on
to
the
hatch
with
his
remaining
arm
,
struck
out
into
the
strongest
race
,
by
which
the
unconscious
man
,
the
hatch
,
and
himself
were
carried
down
the
stream
.
As
soon
as
Venn
found
his
feet
dragging
over
the
pebbles
of
the
shallower
part
below
he
secured
his
footing
and
waded
towards
the
brink
.
There
,
where
the
water
stood
at
about
the
height
of
his
waist
,
he
flung
away
the
hatch
,
and
attempted
to
drag
forth
the
man
.
This
was
a
matter
of
great
difficulty
,
and
he
found
as
the
reason
that
the
legs
of
the
unfortunate
stranger
were
tightly
embraced
by
the
arms
of
another
man
,
who
had
hitherto
been
entirely
beneath
the
surface
.
At
this
moment
his
heart
bounded
to
hear
footsteps
running
towards
him
,
and
two
men
,
roused
by
Thomasin
,
appeared
at
the
brink
above
.
They
ran
to
where
Venn
was
,
and
helped
him
in
lifting
out
the
apparently
drowned
persons
,
separating
them
,
and
laying
them
out
upon
the
grass
.
Venn
turned
the
light
upon
their
faces
.
The
one
who
had
been
uppermost
was
Yeobright
;
he
who
had
been
completely
submerged
was
Wildeve
.
“
Now
we
must
search
the
hole
again
,
”
said
Venn
.
“
A
woman
is
in
there
somewhere
.
Get
a
pole
.
”
