The Mountain Girl by Emma Payne Erskine Chapter 19 Page 15

you were there with me and should put your hand on my bridle as you did that night in the rain, and if you should lead me away off — even into the ‘Valley of the shadow of death’ into those deep shadows below us I would go and never say a word. All at once it seemed as if you were doing that, and I forgot Frale and kept on and on; and wherever it seemed like you were leading me, I went.

“It seemed like I was dreaming, or feeling like a hand was on my heart — a hand I could not see, pulling me and making me feel, ‘This way, this way, I must go this way.’ I never had been where my horse took me before. I didn’t think how I ever could get back again. I didn’t seem to see anything around me — only to go on — on — on, and at last it seemed I couldn’t