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Galors, too, knew that the hour had come; but his spirit came up to

meet it, and he made a push for it He was over the brook; if he could

top the ridge he would have the advantage he had a year ago, which

this tihts as

she had known the accolade of the thundering hoofs behind them She

would have thrown herself if the steel trap had loosed ever so little;

as it was, she fluttered like a rag caught in a bush; the filmy body

hat Galors held, the soul shrilled prayers to the man's

confusion He could not stay her lips; they ainst

him, as he kneell "Mother of God, send hiirl's soul, it slacked his rein and

drugged his heel By God, let the boy coht! "Mother of God, send, send, send!" breathed Isoult The horse

below them shuddered, failed to come up to the rein, bowed his head to

the jerked spur Galors left off spurring, and slackened his rein

Though he would not look behind him he heard the plash of the ford,

heard also Prosper's low, "Steady, mare, hold up!" Prosper was over;

Galors halfway up the hill It would be soon