If I had missed my hold!" "Yes, Outram, it was lucky for me that your arm is strong and your mind quick.

Ah, I am a dreadful coward, and I can see the place now;" and he shuddered.

"Always from a child I have believed that I shall die by a fall from some height, and to-night I thought that my hour had come.

At first I did not understand, for I was watching the Senora's face in the moonlight, and to me she looked like an angel.

Then I saw, and my senses left me.