126 JUSTIN MORGAN 



*'By the bridge, all the same — 'twas not gone five min- 

 utes ago." 



''But, indeed, 'tis washed away a long time since," his 

 wife cried, in amazement, "for James Kelsey came by 

 these two hours agone and told me he had but just 

 crossed in time. Scarce had he landed on this side when 

 there was a great crashing and grinding of timbers and 

 the whole thing was swept away before his very eyes ! 

 He saw by a flash of lightning — all went but one stringer 

 which was wedged against the rocks at either end !" 



And, marvelling together, they fed the "pony" as be- 

 fitted a hero, though Morgan looked upon it as but an 

 incident in the day's work and went about his delicious 

 supper with placid forgetfulness of all else. 



