A Daughter of Maryland — page 129: what you’re looking at

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110 A DAUGHTER OF MARYLAND. Seeing that his body was being carried swiftly down the stream and that she was helpless to aid him where she was, Aurian looked hurriedly around for some means or some way to reach him. In this rapid survey she saw a spot a short distance below where the river narrowed in width, the place reached by an arm of rock. Thinking only of reaching the spot in season to catch hold of the victim of the flood, she ran along the bank a short distance, when _ she leaped recklessly down the precipitous descent, reaching the point of ledge barely in season to see Esten Berners’ white face appear almost at her feet. Clutching upon his clothes with all the power she could concentrate, as he was being carried past, she pulled him from the water upon the rock, so only his feet lay in the stream. Then, overcome by her ordeal, she sank beside his dripping figure almost as helpless as he. She had a dim consciousness of hearing a shout from the river bank, and a few minutes later strong arms raised her up, and she was lifted .to her feet and assisted to the ground above. The new arrivals were Daniel Berners and a party from Sylvania, the first giving his attention to his unconscious son. | It was along time that they had to work over EHsten Berners before he showed any signs of life. A doctor had arrived, and a wagon and team sent down from Sylvania to get him home. He had either received a blow from one of the falling timbers, or what seemed more reasonable, struck his head on a rock when he had been precipitated ~ into the Lash. At any rate, the cause was not now of so. much account as the effect, which promised to prove serious. By the time they had got home Aurian declared that she was fully recovered from the result of what she had been through. Her father, however, while he had received no permanent injury would be confined to his couch for a day or two. | | : : ‘* ~ a 1) ‘ ; : Ba re ComicpDoo | ; . ‘ oS : ; we a yy ee ; 7) bu \ re Ning — ray a ‘ R + j Kav aa ‘ne ¥.: . ME Bote pie toh) Fa aL oh Nt ie vin. PEEP LA ONS Os wy TEN: ie ar kg! Fe MP eo ae? “ eI OME, Ge Hi hie NP LENE CH note tek pan bate.