She clung frantically to the sagging wire, and finally managed to grasp it with the other hand.

Then she could reach the top wire, and so she drew herself up and found solid footing.

She picked up the club that she had dropped in order to extricate herself.

Leaning heavily on it, she managed to return to the trail, but she was trembling so that she scarcely could walk.

Going a few steps farther, she came to the stump of the first tree that had been taken out.
She sat bolt upright and very still, trying to collect her thoughts and reason away her terror.