savage Amazon. He pushed her away from him, striking blindly again and again, but without avail. Her claws slashed his face and arms; once she caught one of his fingers between her teeth and nearly bit it off. The terrible pain blinded him into semi-consciousness. With this as an advantage she pushed him back toward the chasm. Nearer and nearer he felt himself forced to the brink of the precipice.
In a sudden reaction of angry energy, he determined that his foe should die with him. If she lived in the flesh, she should now die in its mortality. His foot felt the brink of the jump-off.
The time had come. He had been falling back, trying to keep at arms' length from the woman; but now he changed his tactics and made a desperate clinch. He gave a frantic pull, and together they went over the brink!
In the protracted fall through the Stygian blackness he had some curiously clear impressions. The roar of the water seemed to rise to meet them. The draft of the flue was sharp and filled with chill particles of moisture. The woman who fell with him accepted their common fate with a strange, dull passivity. Her body was warm and not without a certain charm of touch which instinct told him was that of youth. It was a curious paradox that, after many minutes of furious battling, in which nothing but death could close the issue, his hand should be upon her breast, and he could feel the flutter of her heart. Then came the impact.
The chill waters of Lost River seemed to gather them up in a roaring, breathless embrace. He had always been a good swimmer—the waters of Green River could bear testimony as to that. Instinctively he held his breath. The swirl carried him and the woman swiftly away
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