Down swooped the catboat. Polly was shouting madly; but not for an instant did she lose control of the boat or ignore the work she had in hand. She wanted to encourage Wyn and the other; but she was taking no chances. Suddenly she let the sheet run and loosed the halliards. The canvas fluttered down on the deck with a rustle and crash. The catboat sprang to even keel, but shot on under the momentum it had gained in swooping down upon the swamped girls. "Wyn! hold hard! _I've got you!_" But it was the other girl Polly grasped. Wyn had turned, thrust the half-drowned Bessie before her, and Polly, leaning over the gunwale of the tossing boat, seized her by the shoulders. In a moment she heaved up, struggled, dragged the other girl forward, and together rescuer and rescued tumbled flat into the cockpit of the _Coquette_. Polly shouted again: "Wyn! Wyn! I'll come back for you----" "Give me a hand!" cried Wyn, hanging to the rudder. "Polly! you old darling! If you hadn't got here when you did----" Polly left Bess to her own resources and rushed to the stern. She helped Wyn clamber into the boat. Then she hoisted the sail again, and got way upon the boat. She raised the canvas only a little, for she had risked all the weight she dared upon the mast before. "Are you all right, Bess?" cried Wyn. "I--I'm alive. But, oh! I'm so--so sick," gasped Miss Lavine. "Brace up, Bess! We're all right now. Polly has saved us." "Polly?" cried Bess, sitting up, the better to see the boatman's daughter as the latter sat again at the helm. "Oh, Polly!" "You'd better both lie down till we get to the camp. I'll take you right there," said the other girl, briefly. "We'd have been--been drowned, Wyn!" gasped Bess. "I guess we would. We are still a long way from shore." "And Polly saved us? All alone? How wonderful!" But Polly's face was stern. She scarcely spoke to the two Denton girls as the _Coquette_ swept across the lake. Wyn told her just how it all happened and the condition of the two canoes when they lost sight of them. "I saw one; maybe the other can be found," Polly said. "I'll speak to father and, if the moon comes up clear bye and bye, we'll run out and see if we can recover them." But for Bess she had no word, or look, and when the other put out her hand timidly and tried to thank her, as they neared the shore, Polly only said: "That's all right. We're used to helping people who get overturned. It really is nothing." She would not see Bessie's hand. The latter felt the repulse and Wyn, who watched them both anxiously, dared not say a word. CHAPTER XV TROUBLE "BRUIN" The other girls and Mrs. Havel were all down on the beach to meet the catboat and her passengers. To see Wyn and Bessie returning across the lake in the sailboat, instead of the canoes, forewarned the Go-Aheads that an accident had happened. But although the girls were wet and bedraggled, the captain of the club made light of the affair. "Where are your canoes?"