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WILD SPORTS IN THE SOUTH. 



unusual light. Her brain reeled with the smoke and she became 

 insensible. 



When she recovered her senses the morniug had broken, and 

 the world with its thousand happy tenants had awakened to the 

 joys of another day. The slight wooden staircase in the tower had 

 burned out, leaving the column of stone and mortar with its iron- 

 ribbed lantern as strong as before. The girl looked down the 

 column and found herself cut off from the earth. She looked out 

 on the strand and there was no living being in sight. The lamp 

 had gone out in the smoke. She looked out for her late enemies, 

 but could see none. The world below her was beautiful to see, 

 replete with rolling breakers, shells and sands, flowering palmettoes, 

 and the long lagoon, with its little island, dreaming a hundred 

 yards from shore. 



