oris sank
upon her knees.

Suddenly the lightning flashed again, this time so vividly and so near
that the whole heaven burst into fiery illumination above them and the
thunder, crashing almost simultaneously, seemed for a moment to rock
the world and bow the heavens towards them. Then a silence; then
Sweetwater's whisper in Mr. Challoner's ear:

"Take them away! I saw him; he was falling like a shot."

Mr. Challoner threw out his arms, then steadied himself. Oswald was
reeling; Oswald had seen too. But Doris was there. When the lightning
flashed again, she was standing and Oswald was weeping on her bosom.

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