Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 210: what you’re looking at

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NED BRIGHT AGAIN APPEARS. 9038 inflicted by the sharp stones of the pike, and insensi-_ ble. The horse was dead. It needed no examination to prove this. The fallen man came near being crushed under the — heels of the troopers’ horses, so sudden had been the catastrophe. ‘Ts the captain dead ?”? ‘What shall we do?”’ These were the questions that Bluff’s men .asked, when they came to their young leader’s side, as he bent over the fallen captain. ‘IT do not think he is dead,’’ answered Mose, wnose own face was quite pale. ‘‘We must get him out of this, and to.a house at once.”’ ‘“Strangest thing out,’’ uttered one of the rangers. ‘‘Never saw a horse fall dead ’thout bein’ teched afore.’? ‘Loyal Mose”’ made no comment. He ordered his men to lift the insensible form of the captain, while he led the way up to the door of Orvin Clymore’s farm-house. wwe me ee CHAPTER XXXIX: NED BRIGHT AGAIN APPEARS, When Captain Royal Chetwood opened his eyes, he gazed about him in utter astonishment. Where was he, and what had happened? Above his head was a white ceiling, and around him the walls of a room. This satisfied him that he was not on the battle- field. His brain was in a whirl, and he could not, for the life of him, tell where he was, and what had hap- | pene (e(e) mM C oXoXe) cS (E(@