He dragged her, her feet stumbling in the grass.

She could hear horses snorting, so there was some vehicle here, she supposed.

He flung her up to the seat, jerked loose the halters, and climbed in as the team plunged forward.

Had any one seen the careening wagon, seen the upflung arm of a woman swaying in the grasp of the man who sat beside her in the seat--had any one heard the laugh of the man, the shrieks of the woman, struggling and calling,--he must have thought that two drunken human beings instead of one were endeavoring to show the astonished sky how bestial life may be even here in America in an undone day..