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A Bicycle of Cathay

CHAPTER IX
10/23

Holding him firmly, I faced the lady as she stopped near me.
She was a young woman in a jaunty summer costume and a round straw hat.

She did not seem to be quite mistress of herself; she was not pale, but perhaps that was because her face was somewhat browned by the sun, but her step was not steady, and she breathed hard.

Under ordinary circumstances she would have been assisted to the side of the road, where she might sit down and recover herself, and have water brought to her.

But I could do nothing of that sort.

I could not leave that shivering horse.
[Illustration: "HE WAS RUNNING AWAY"] "Are you hurt ?" I asked.
"Oh no," she said, "but I am shaken up a bit.


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