Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: WOMAN OUR ANGEL. BY A. S. ROE, u AUTHOR OP A LONG LOOK AHEAD, ‘TO LOVE AND TO BE LOVED,
TIME AND TIDE, THE STAR AND THE CLOUD,
TRUE TO THE LAST,
HOW COULD HE HELP IT?
LIKE AND UNLIKE,
LOOKING AROUND, ETC. NEW-YORK: CilllLETOW, Publisher, 4/J1 LONDON: S. LOW, SON i CO. MDCCCLXVI. HARVARD COLLtuc USK BOUGHT FROM DUPLICATE MONEY AUli 15 1940 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by GEO. W. CAKLETON, In the Clerk’s Office ot tbe District Court of the United States for tba Southern District of Row York. The New York Printing Company, 81, 83, and 85 Centre Street, New Yokk. WOMAN OUR ANGEL. CHAPTER I. ilONALD ROLAND had been on a ride to one of his farms, and was returning through a large tract of woods. He was walking his horse, in order to avoid the impending branches that lined the narrow wagon-track, when he heard, as he thought, the neigh of a horse. Immediately Hunter pricked up his ears and whinnied as though he had recognized an acquaintance. Supposing, of course, there must be another traveler in the woods besides himself, and probably they would soon meet, he kept his eye in the direction of the road; but he could see only a short distance in advance of his progress, as the path was curving, and the undergrowth of wood quite dense. Coming soon, however, to a point where a clear view could be obtained for some distance ahead, he began to be somewhat alarmed, as no pei-son was in sight; and yet the neigh of a horse was again heard by him, and not far off. The reason for his alarm was, that on'one side of the path he was traveling there extended for some distance a swamp covered with dense spruce, and part of it dangerous, on account of its very loose…
