Ruby's Reward — page 109: what you’re looking at

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ere a MS: COTES | RMAAP RSME UBER SON er MRE: “Pe NS PERRO ne PO EPO gE c x elie - ——a Shortly after, Walter tuined aside from the road into an opening space where the underbrush had been cleared from bencath three noble oaks, and, dismounting, hitched his horses to a ponderous ring that had been dviven into one of the trees for that pur- pose. “This is a favourite resort for parties,” Walter explained, as he performed tho same service for Mr Marshall, the gentle- man who had accomplained him hither, ‘Cand you perceive that arrangements have been made for their convenience.” He then assisted Ruby to alight, and led the way along a well-trodden path, thiough a thick growth of pine and cedar, toward the natural eniosity which he had come to show her. They were obliged to walk some distance, and at length they came out near what ap- peared to be a gorge, where huge boulders and masses of rock rose up on cither side far above them, and then sloped away be- neath into what seemed to be a fathomless abyss. ‘A little farther on and Ruby uttered an exclamation of astonishment ; for before and far above them, spanning the gorge, with a perfect and symmetrical arch, was a beauti- ful, moss - grown, ivy - draped bridge. fashioned by Nature’s own hand. ‘© Oh, how little it makes one fect!” said the young girl, in an awed tone, while her eyes roved wp over the almost perpendicular mountain side opposite them, where, in some places, the gigantic walls of granite seemed as smooth as if they had been cloven with some ponderous instrumentsotidbesicom