If she goes over that, they'll be smashed up like a matchbox, horse and rider.' 'What's that ?' I said, closing up alongside of him.

We were all doing our best, and were just in the line to back up Jim, who looked as if he was overhauling the mare fast.
'Why, it's a bluff a hundred feet deep--a straight drop--and rocks at the bottom.

She's making as straight as a bee-line for it now, blast her!' 'And Jim don't know it,' I said; 'he's closing up to her, but he doesn't calculate to do it for a quarter of a mile more; he's letting her take it out of herself.' 'He'll never catch her in time,' said the young chap.

'My God! it's an awful thing, isn't it?
and a fine young lady like her--so kind to us chaps as she was.' 'I'll see if I can make Jim hear,' I said, for though I looked cool I was as nearly mad as I could be to think of such a girl being lost before our eyes.

'No, I can't do that, but I'll TELEGRAPH.'.