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me ! Save me I " And again, as was most natural,
I found myself awake on the floor of my room—though
this time I did not scream — wet and quivering with
some nameless terror, and with Norah's despairing cry
in my ears.
But even in the first instant of my awakening I had
taken a resolution which forthwith I proceeded to carry
into effect. These terrible dreams— whencesoever they
came—must not have come in vain ! The grim warning
must not be despised ! Norah was in danger, and I
must go to her at all hazards
I threw on my clothes and went and woke Dick. When
I told him my intention he jumped up at once and began
to dress, whilst I ran downstairs and found Andy, and
set him to get out the car at once.
"Is it goin' out agin in the shtorm ye are ? Begor
ye'd not go widout some rayson, an' I'm not the bhoy to
be behind whin ye want me. I'll be ready, yer 'an'r, in
two skips iv a dead salmon!" and Andy proceeded to
make, or rather complete, his toilet, and hurried out to
the stable to get the car ready. In the mean time Dick
had got two lanterns and a flask, and showed them to
me.
" We may as well have them with us. We do not
know what we may want in this storm."
It was now past one o'clock, and the night was
pitchy dark. The rain still fell, and high overhead we
could hear the ceaseless rushing of the wind. It was a
lucky thing that both Andy and the mare knew the road