'heaviest outer garments ; slipping the bridle -, ;!»■). the bone's ears, tbe slipped it down

Diana took in, with one swift, surveying glance, the terrible situation of the men — the dangerous floating debris, lodging against the tops of the undergrowth beneath the water, and the treacherons slough at her feet then dashed away up the stream. Dainty looked after her with a Bort of telpless resignation. Brassy heaved a great sigh. " I wish she hadn't gone ; it's no use, she never can get help here in time to do us any good. An' it'd 'a' been a sort o' consolation to her her set ihere and see't we died brave. I tell you, boys,-compauy in a emergency like tbis is a mighty sight of assistance to pluck. I don't believe Elizabeth Zane could V started so reckless after that powder if she hadn't a knowed the heart of every man an' woman in the fort was a-beatin' with hern. When a man's goin' to be hung he can keep his knees from knocking together with the sereneness of showin' tue man't hangs him that he's grit ; but to be treed and drowned in -muddy water without nobody even to ■■ ■ By she's comia' to us, God .bless her I" , " God save her," said Dainty. ' A hundred yards or so above them Diana VM hurridly throwing off her boots and

over liis nose ana nung v on tne ground oy the garments, aud, sticking her heels into his flanks with the abandon of a vaquero tried to rush him over the river bank. He snorted and reared up on his hind feet, standing so straight that Diana had to clasp her arms around his neck to keep from slid ing off behind. He was a wonderfully trained arimal, in spite of vicious tenden cies, and he never before refused to obey Diana— the river terrified him out of hia training and loyalty.
