Ruby's Reward — page 112: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XTIL (Continuen.) Rery stood motionless there for more than a minute. She was almost fascinated by the horror of the place and the possibilities of impending peril. How little a thing, she theught, would serve to precipitate her upon those eruel rocks, whose sharp and rageet points she could just discern reach- ine up out of the gloomy depths. She tried to imagine what the sensation would be to fall from such a height -to fcel one’s self going down, down, down. She wondered how long ib would taxe to reach the bottoih, and if one would be apt to lose consciousness befc:e the awful crash could come. A nervous thilf ran throngh her like electricity, and her little fingers cloned almost eonvulsively around Walter’ Ss, as she drew back from the abyss and lifted a white, awed face to his. “Are you frightened?” he asked, anxiously, as he drew her stHl farther away. “No, not really frightened ; though I should be if you were not here, she answered, naively, amd still clinging to him. asifin him lay all her strength “and protection. ‘It is very awe-inspiring,’ she added, with a lone-diawn breath ; “how dreadful it would be to fall into such place.” comicbooks.com zs a = “ae