She jumped out of the rifle pit and ran right to him while the bullets were flying and led him back into shelter.

About midday the well caved in, and there was lively work digging out the couple who were buried in the sand.

Amos Wentworth did not come to for an hour.

After that they timbered the well with bottom boards from the wagons and wagon tongues, and the digging went on.

But all they could get, and they were twenty feet down, was damp sand.