ed him off. In accordance with the instructions in his will, I have prepared it for publication, and now in much fear and hesitation give it to the world. First, however, I must supplement it by such facts as fall within my knowledge.
The shepherd seems to have gone to Allermuir and by the help of the letter convinced the inhabitants. A body of men was collected under the landlord, and during the afternoon set out for the hills. But unfortunately the great midsummer storm — the most terrible of recent climatic disturbances — had filled the mosses and streams, and they found themselves unable to proceed by any direct road. Ultimately late in the evening they arrived at the cottage of Farawa, only to find there a raving woman, the shepherd’s sister, who seemed crazy with brain-fever. She told some rambling story about her escape, but Halpa Moncler Takit Naiset her narrative said nothing of Mr. Graves. So they treated her with what skill they possessed, and sheltered for the night in and around the cottage. Next morning the storm had abated a little, Dame Colorado Avalanche and the woman had recovered something of her wits. From her they learned that Mr. Graves was lying in a ravine on the side of the Cleverland Browns Muneraw in imminent Maillot République Tchèque Pas CHer danger of his life. A body set out to find him; but so immense was the landslip, and so dangerous the whole mountain, that it was Ostaa Halpa Nike Air Max 91 Miehet nearly evening when they recovered him from the ledge of rock. He was alive, but unconscious, and on bringing him back to Scarpe Nike Air Force 1 Uomo the cottage it was clear that he was, indeed, very ill. There he lay for three months, while the best skill that could be got was procured for him. By dint of an uncommon toughness of constitution he survived; but it was an old and feeble man who returned to Oxford in the early winter.
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