Downstream

the colour of his skin’ but get
in the water and try to rescue
them.
I refold Penny’s letter, still
wondering about Derham’s
character and prejudices, and
put it back in the box, to find
the next document is his very
own thirty-one-page ‘my life
story’. He could swim by the
age of six and at seven had
made up his mind ‘that I
should swim the Channel and
do the same as Captain Webb