A prayer rose up from her lips.
She waited for the catastrophe!
The tension on the horse’s nerves became too great.
Again the animal trembled!
Its knees began to yield!
The ground seemed all at once to give from beneath its feet!
His rider felt that she was lost!
No—saved!
Just as her closing eyes saw the courageous animal slide into the black chasm, and heard its last snort of her terror, she felt herself lifted from the saddle, borne from the spot, and then—
She knew no more.