Eventually satisfied that no one could see her, she jumped. Her hands found the window ledge and she hoisted herself up, hooking a small jimmy beneath...the casement window and swinging it open. She dove through the opening into the library, pulling the window closed behind her. She stood there catching her breath and reached to straighten her mask and hat. It was gone. Looking out the window, she saw the hat she had forgotten to secure lying in the bushes.“Blast it!” she whispered. Well, she’d. After a few minutes, he led them back to the corral, tied the ropes to the rails and saddled them up.By the time Ariel had everything packed and ready to go, Jack was just finishing saddling Cajun. Lady was all set to go. Ariel gave Jack the backpack to tie to his saddle and she tied the cooler to her saddle. Jack helped Ariel mount up. She leaned down and kissed him before he walked to Cajun and climbed on. They rode out, following the "Maple Trail" to the "Elm Trail" and back to the road to. The girl still unconscious was quickly carried up to to Katya's roomwhile someone fetched a doctor, whilst Katya herself went down to the baragain telling the manager all that had happened; also checking how thegirl was until a doctor arrived and gave the still unconscious girl asedative.Closing the front door of the bar and saying a hurried goodnight to theManager, she quickly went upstairs and going into her room grabbed aspare mattress, several heavy blankets for both of them, a pillow. It was dark when he woke in the fork of a tree, the junction of a shattered branch almost as thick as his waist and the trunk so large he could not wrap his arms around. Through the destroyed canopy along the path of his crash, he could make out the stars shining and the hint of a moon somewhere to his left. His entire body hurt and breathing sent jagged slivers white-hot fire through his chest. His left leg was a throbbing mass of pain from the knee up, and numb below. His right leg was a.