By Audrey Couloumbis
Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western event novels. while she and her sister Maude get away their self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier, they start an experience the likes of which Sallie has in basic terms examine. This time even though, the "wanted woman" isn't a dime-novel villian, it's Sallie's own sister! What follows isn't the lies the papers published, however the honest-to-goodness fact of the way sisters went from being orphans to being outlaws—and lived to inform the story!
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Anxiously now were all eyes turned to the headland, but as yet no boat was there. The two men rose to the surface, each struggling in the arms of the other. Trow, though he was in an element to which he was not used, though he had sprung thither as another suicide might spring to certain death beneath a railway engine, did not altogether lose his presence of mind. Prompted by a double instinct, he had clutched hold of Morton's body when he encountered it beneath the waters. He held on to it, as to his only protection, and he held on to him also as to his only enemy.
The two men had been carried out in their struggle towards the open sea; and as the boat curved in, so as to be as close as the rocks would allow, the bodies of the men were brought within the sweep of the oars. He in the bow— 32 Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope for there were four pulling in the boat—had raised his oar as he neared the rocks,—had raised it high above the water; and now, as they passed close by the struggling men, he let it fall with all its force on the upturned face of the wretched convict.
30 Aaron Trow by Anthony Trollope Caleb Morton was a very strong man, and though one of his arms was altogether encumbered by his antagonist, his other arm and his legs were free. With these he seemed to succeed in keeping his head above the water, weighted as he was with the body of his foe. But Trow's efforts were also used with the view of keeping himself above the water. Though he had purposed to destroy himself in taking that leap, and now hoped for nothing better than that they might both perish together, he yet struggled to keep his head above the waves.