Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-22
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The two friends did not wish to separate, but agreed to ride to the Grange together. lord Walter accepted the horse Frank had been riding, and the young farmer mounteda a powerful roadster, one of his fathers team. They were to precede the wagon and car l riage, which the tutor occupied by himself. It was fearfully dark night. The young men, however, were sufficiently acquainted with the New Forest not to lose their way.
 :sEthel is nervous observed Lord Walter, sneaIinp for @the first time-for both the young men had been plunged in reverie. 1.-The solitude of her home tells upon her | imagination"
 "StiII her warning is not to be slighted," replied Frank, who had been thinking of | Lady Alice.
 sWhat warning ?"
 q will tell you when we arrive safely at the Grange.e
 As the young farmer uttered these words he distinctly saw, during momentary flash of autumnal lightning, two figures cross the 1 path He shouted to them, but they disap- peared in the underwood. E'Why did you call out ?" demanded his | friend, who had not perceived them. Possibly it was wild fox crossed my path, !" answered Frank, evasively. ''Thank Heaven,' he added, i've have reached the l Gap. Let me go first.
 Mot SC, replied the high-spirited youth. l ssYou treat me like child, Frank If there l is any danger, why should you be the first to encounter 1t ?"
 Giving the rein to his horse, the speaker ad- vanced at brisk pace, taking, as he thought, | the road to Walburg; but one of the lamps l had been removed and fixed at a distance, leaving the precipice exposed and unguarded. | In an instant the high-spirited animal and it's rider disappeared over the edge. ''Hah !" exclaimed the young farmer, with a cry of horror. ''He has gone over! There has been treachery!-foul and deliberate | Cr11eI orua1 Who shall tell hia | poor father and sister this p l He started, as if he had suddenly received an electric shock, for low wailing cry, l which sounded something like his own name, l had fallen upon his ear, but so faint and in distinct that he thought at first his senses had l played him false.
 ''It came from the Gap!" he exclaimed, greatly excited, as he rushed to the brink of l the precipice.
 l Falling flat upon the grass, he dragged him self to the extreme edge of the precipice, over which Chowl one of Franks carters, 1 who had taken a similar precaution, held one of the lamps. The heart of our hero beat wildly, for he felt almost mad with joy when | he discovered his friend clnging to the | boughs of an old ash tree that grew from a 1 projection far down the precipice. As the | horse fell from the giddy height, Lord Wal | ter, with infinite presence of mind, had clutch 1 ed one of the branches. The hinh-spirited animal lay shapeless mass at the bottom of the quarry, but it's rider still lived, and was 1 comparatively uninjured. l ''Walter Dear Walter! Let me hear your | voice again i'' shouted his friend. Are you reallly safe ?''
 'For few moments only" replied the youth. mournfully Heaven has granted me time to breathe prayer for those I love. h an instant sas it were, my heart has been re- vealed to me. Farewell forever! The old ash tree is gradually yielding beneath my | weight"
 s'Hold on '" shouted Frank. Providence will not leave it's work unaccomplished."
 Animated by the hope of preserving his 1 friend, the speaker sprang to his feet and called to the carter to bring him the ropes from the wagon. These he knotted together, seeing to the fastenings himself, and made { l running loop at the end with his own hands
 1.-The tree will never bear his weight, thought Chowl, who divined his intentions
 ''More ropes' said his young master. They were brought to him, and similar process gone through.
 With the bords in his hands our hero crep once more to the edge of the cliff. The olt ash inclined still more menacingly over tn, abyss and the earth round the roots in tht soil above began to crack ominously. Franl comprehended at a glance that his additiona weight would precipitate it at once to the bot tom of the quarry.
 ''Ohl" he murmured, wr1nglng his hand despairingly, ''what can do 7"
 ''Give them to me-" said soft voice be side him.
 It was Ethel's. The brave girl had heard of Lord Walters danger, and impelled by al impulse she could not control, hastened t. the scene of action.
 ''You ?'' ejac ulated the young farmer. "No mol It would be too terrible!" | More so than his loss ?" demanded tn forest maiden revealing the secret of he pure and innocent heart. q am slight tn tree may possibly bear my weight. If onl, for few minutes, till can throw the rop and loop him, he is saved. "
 It was indeed the only chance-fearful desperate. yet possible. And all who heart her were struck with admiration of her pres ence of mind and courage.
 'It must be tried" she continued, witt passionate energy ''You will not see hin perish. What Is my life compared with hi safety? I am ready"
 Half blinded by tears of admiration anC regret, Frank fastened one of the loops care fully round her waist, and placed the othe in her hand.
 "Drop it over him, Ethel" he whispered ''Those above will hold the ends of the cords Do not look down, the fearful height ma. make you dizzy-be firm, and may God bles and prosper your undertaking"
 Ethel closed her eyes for instant il | mental prayer. Then pronounced in a frn voice-s'I am ready!''
 The young farmer took her in his arms ant lowered her carefully till her feet touched tn trunk of the tree, on which she alighted a silently as bird. momentary shiverinG convulsed her delicate frame, but it passet almost as quickly as it came.
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