Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869. Excerpt: ... dangerous exploit; still, both the horse and his rider gloried in it, and took the road with renewed spirit. Billy Clark rode after them, making the best time his inferior horse was capable of, and entering a breathless protest, now and then, when Flash started off on a new race, just as he came within speaking distance. The truth was, Zua had no great inclination for even that humble companionship which Clark offered while riding behind her. She had brought him as an excuse for the protection her father thought indispensable, and cared no more about the matter, enjoying the freedom and exhilaration of her ride with more zest because of its hardihood. But the remarkable spirit of her horse could not last forever. She broke up his speed at last, and was clearing the road with a regular canter, when something ahead made him point his ears and struggle backward. Zua looked around to search out the cause of this revolt, when she saw a light wagon overturned by the side of the road, and two black horses leaping and rioting away in the distance, with a portion of the wagon dangling after them. CHAPTER II. THE MAN BY THE WAYSIDE. CLOSE by the shattered buggy, which lay across the road, Zua Wheaton saw a man, prostrate, motionless, and with his face on the grass. There was a limp, dead appearance about this figure which frightened her. She drew up her horse, and called out for Billy Clark, in a voice sharpened by anxiety. Billy rode up, stumbled off his horse while it was still going, and kneeling down by the prostrate man, turned him over with his face to the sun. It was a beautiful face, white as marble, and all the features exquisitely cut, as if some great artist had chiseled it from the pure stone. "Does he breathe? Is he dead?" cried Zua, turning pale from ...
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