CHAPTER VIII.
NEW FRIENDS IN STRANGE PLACES.
Ralph opened his eyes at a moderately late hour on the ensuing morning, and found Forrester in close attendance.

He felt himself somewhat sore from his bruises in falling, but the wound gave him little concern.
Indeed, he was scarcely conscious of it.

He had slept well, and was not unwilling to enter into the explanatory conversation which the woodman began.

From him he learned the manner and situation in which he had been found, and was furnished with a partial history of his present whereabouts.

In return, he gave a particular account of the assault made upon him in the wood, and of his escape; all of which, already known to the reader, will call for no additional details.