CHAPTER X.MR.CLEMENT LINDSAY FINISHES HIS LETTER--WHAT CAME OF IT.
The first thing Clement Lindsay did, when he was fairly himself again, was to finish his letter to Susan Posey.

He took it up where it left off, "with an affection which----" and drew a long dash, as above.

It was with great effort he wrote the lines which follow, for he had got an ugly blow on the forehead, and his eyes were "in mourning," as the gentlemen of the ring say, with unbecoming levity.
"An adventure! Just as I was writing these last words, I heard the cry of a young person, as it sounded, for help.

I ran to the river and jumped in, and had the pleasure of saving a life.

I got some bruises which have laid me up for a day or two; but I am getting over them very well now, and you need not worry about me at all.