A CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR MEETING IN THE WILDERNESS He stepped boldly around the green barrier, and his first glance told him she was lying there still asleep; but the consciousness of another presence held him from going away.

There, coiled on the ground with venomous fangs extended and eyes glittering like slimy jewels, was a rattlesnake, close beside her.
For a second he gazed with a kind of fascinated horror, and his brain refused to act.

Then he knew he must do something, and at once.

He had read of serpents and travellers' encounters with them, but no memory of what was to be done under such circumstances came.

Shoot?
He dared not.