un before, regardless of the wolves, in the same
direction. As I passed by I saw that the pack had stopped and were
already engaged in tearing to pieces the brutes we had shot. In an
instant afterwards, it seemed, I observed Long Sam's lasso cast with
unerring aim over the neck of the frantic steed, which plunged and
reared, but happily did not fall over. In another moment Sam had drawn
the lasso so tightly round its neck that it was unable to move.

We sprang forward, cut the thongs which bound the female to the animal's
back, and lifting her to the ground, carried her out of danger. She
still breathed, though apparently perfectly unconscious. The light of
the moon showed us the features of Ellen Hargrave.

We did not stop to see what Long Sam did with the captured horse, but at
once carried the young lady to the camp, when, by sprinkling her face
with water and bathing her hands, she in a short time was restored to
consciousness.

Her first impulse was to return thanks to heaven for her preservation.
Looking up he recognised Dick and me.

"Where is Harry? Where is Mr Armitage?" she asked, evidently
concluding that he must be of our party.

Dick replied that he was safe in the camp with her friends; that we had
beaten the savages who had attacked them, and, finding that she had been
carried off, had come in search of her. Though we did not inquire how
she had been treated in the Indian camp, she without hesitation told us
that Black Eagle had been compelled to release her by his superior
chief; when, having been kept in a wigwam by herself for some hours, she
had been bound to a horse, which being led away from the camp had been
driven out into the wilds. She was fully prepared, she said, for a
lingering death, but still she prayed that she might be preserved. All
hope however had gone when she heard in the distance the howls of the
wolves, and the horse sprang forward on its mad career over the rocky
ground. "The rest you know," she added. "I would thankfully forget
those fearful moments."

I must make a long story short. Miss Hargrave appeared much recovered
after a night's rest in the hut we built for her, and the next morning
we formed a litter on which we carried her a day's journey; but on the
following morning she insisted on mounting one of the horses, and, a
side-saddle being prepared, she performed the rest of the distance to
camp with out apparent suffering.

I need not say that she was r