. St. Nicholas [serial] . r it was evident she could not holdon much longer. Breathless, with staring eyesand pale, set features, she clung, hardly con-scious, to the wheel, which now was wab-bling—zigzagging from one side of the roadto the other. The boy watched her movementskeenly and placed himself so that she must passclose to his right side, and as the wheel shot byhe braced himself and, with a desperate effort,caught her in his arms. The shock threw himto the ground, where he lay for a momentstunned, while she fell beside him in a faint,and the bicycle, after staggering on a few yardsfar
. St. Nicholas [serial] . r it was evident she could not holdon much longer. Breathless, with staring eyesand pale, set features, she clung, hardly con-scious, to the wheel, which now was wab-bling—zigzagging from one side of the roadto the other. The boy watched her movementskeenly and placed himself so that she must passclose to his right side, and as the wheel shot byhe braced himself and, with a desperate effort,caught her in his arms. The shock threw himto the ground, where he lay for a momentstunned, while she fell beside him in a faint,and the bicycle, after staggering on a few yardsfarther, rolled over the high bank at the road-side. Fortunately neither the boy nor Lulu sufferedany permanent injury, though the fright and A RUNAWAY. I IOI the nervous shock were sufficient to keep Lulu of the wheel would have dashed her to theindoors for some days, and her friend had the earth with almost certainly fatal results; whilepleasure of nursing a broken collar-bone. even if she had kept upon the wheel all the. WITH GRIM DETERMINATION SHE CLUNG TO THE HANDLE-BARS. It was a perilous feat, showing great presenceof mind as well as daring, and beyond a doubtwas the means of saving the girls life. Thepoint at which she was stopped was less thanhalf-way down the long hill, and at the rate ofspeed attained already—which was acceleratedevery moment—the slightest jolt or swerving way, she could hardly have avoided disasterupon the narrow bridge at the foot of thedescent. Much to his disgust, the boy was hailed as ahero, and even now, after several years, fewbicyclers pass the spot without recalling histimely and plucky deed.
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