Way of an Eagle Author:Ethel M. Dell Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER VI WHEN STRONG MEN FAIL " AKE up! "said Nick softly. "Wakeup! Don't be afraid." But Muriel turned her face from the light with a moan. Me... more »mory winged with horror was sweeping back upon her, and she wanted never to wake again. "Wake up!" Nick said again, and this time there was insistence in his voice. " Open your eyes, Muriel. There is nothing to frighten you." Shuddering, she obeyed him. She was lying once more upon her couch of ferns, and he was stooping over her, looking closely into her face. His eyes were extraordinarily bright, like the eyes of an eagle, but the lids flickered so rapidly that he seemed to be looking through her rather than at her. There was a wound upon his lower lip, and at the sight she shuddered again, closing her eyes. She remembered that the last time she had looked upon that face, it had been the face of a devil. "Oh, go away! Go away!" she wailed. "Let me die!" "I will go away," he answered swiftly, "if you will promise to drink what is in this cup." He pressed it against her hand, and she took it . Imost mechanically. " It is only brandy and water," he said. " You will drink it? " "If I must," she answered weakly. "You must," he rejoined, and she heard him rise and move away. She strained her ears to listen, but she very soon ceased to hear him; and then raising herself cautiously, she drank. A warm thrill of life ran through her veins with the draught, steadying her, refreshing her. But it was long before she could bring herself to look round. The miniature roar of the stream was the only sound to be heard, and when at length she glanced downwards there was no sign anywhere of the ghastly spectacle she had just witnessed. She saw the rock behind which she had knelt, and again a violent fit of shuddering...« less