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The sense of fear was growing on her She scorned and derided it She

tried to convince herself it did not exist, but it did exist, torturing

her with its strangeness and with the thoughts that it engendered She

had anticipated nothing like this She had never thought of a

contingency that would end so, that would induce a situation before

which her courage was shuddering into pieces with the horror that was

opening up before her--a thing that had always seemed a remote

impossibility that could never touch her, froe of

which her life with Aubrey had al its reality upon her till she treathered on her forehead

The Arab lad of the

change for it freed her head froain--only once when the chestnut shied violently he

under his breath But her satisfaction was

short-lived A few htened round her once

cloak round her head, blinding

her And then she understood The galloping horse was pulled in with

almost the same suddenness that had amazed her when she had first seen

the Arabs She felt hiround; there were voices around her--confused, unintelligible;

then they died away as she felt him carry her a few paces He set her