"Were you at the head of an army, I might then dare to reveal the full weight of my anxieties; but Heaven has already been sufficiently gracious to me by your hands, in redeeming me from my cruelest enemy; and for the rest, I put my trust in the same overruling Providence." At this moment a man entered and told the knight the vehicle was finished, the morning fine, and his men ready to march.

He turned toward Helen: "May I conduct you to the rude carriage we have prepared ?" Helen gathered her mantle about her; and the knight, throwing his scarf over her head--it had no other covering--she gave him her hand, and he led her out on the hut to the side of the bier.

It was overlaid with the men's plaids.

The knight placed her on it; and the carriers raising it on their shoulders, her deliverer led the way, and they took their course down the mountain..