he wheeled around as if he had
been shot himself.

What did he see?

The brave Ariel had drawn the arrow from her arm, and was sitting
erect. In her right hand, was a small earthen bottle such as was in
common use among the Murhapas.

"Great heaven! what does this mean?" demanded her lover, uncertain
whether he was awake or dreaming.

She smiled faintly, and said:

"I feel a little faint, but the danger is past."

"But,--but,"--he added, "the arrow was poisoned!"

"Yes, but the poison has a remedy; it is in _that_," she added, holding
up the bottle; "my parent always carried it; I brought it with me when
I left home."

The overjoyed lover could not repress a shout of joy,--a shout which
penetrated every portion of the cavern of diamonds, but whose meaning,
fortunately for the couple, was not understood by the ears on which it
fell.

He knelt beside her, so that the bowlders shut both from the view of
any prowlers who might seek to reach them. He kissed the happy face
again and again; he called her the sweetest names that ever mortal
uttered, and he assured her that they should both live and be happy
forever.

In his overflowing bliss, he could not realize that they were still
walled in on every hand. All that he could know and feel, was, that
she was spared from a dreadful death,--that she had interposed her own
precious body to protect him from harm.

Enwrapped in his arms, she was obliged to confess that the bringing of
the potent remedy was an inspiration, when she stole out of her
father's house, for she never dreamed of the use to which it would be
put.

She had forgotten all about it, until the sharp twinge in her arm
apprised her that she was struck by the fearful missile. Then, as she
was about to swoon, she recalled that she carried the remedy in her
bosom.

Drawing it quickly forth, while her lover's face was turned away, she
drank the whole contents, which were sufficient to save the lives of
three or four persons. Not a drop, however, was left; and she remarked
in her own peculiar manner, that they must be careful not to be struck
by any more such missiles, since the remedy was gone, and it would be
hard to secure more.

With a full realization of the remarkable deliverance of his beloved,
Ashman was roused to a stronger resolution than before of making a
desperate effort to extricate themselves from their perilous situation,
which looked indeed as if without hope.

Rising to his