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Excerpt: ...the still winter air. She screamed again and yet again. Wiggins' face rose above the edge of the ice; and he gasped and spluttered. Then she sank down gently, at full length, face downward on the ice, and squirmed slowly, spread out so as to distribute her weight over as wide a surface as possible, toward the hole. Half a minute's cautious squirming brought her hands to the edge of it; and with a sob of relief she grasped his wrists. The ice bent under her weight, but it did not break. The icy water, welling out over it, began to drench her arms and chest. Very gently she tried to draw Wiggins out over the ice; but she could not. She could get no grip on it with her toes to drag from. Wiggins' little face, two feet from her own, was very white; and his teeth chattered. She set her teeth and strove to find a hold for her slipping toes. She could not. "C-c-can't you p-p-pull m-m-me out?" chattered Wiggins. "No, not yet," she said hoarsely. "But it's all right. The Terror will be here in a minute." She raised her head as high as she could and screamed again. She listened with all her ears for an answer. A bird squeaked shrilly on the other side of the field; there was no other sound. Wiggins' white face was now bluish round the mouth; and his eyes were full of fear. Again she kicked about for a grip, in vain. "It's d-d-dreadfully c-c-cold," said Wiggins in a very faint voice; he began to sob; and his eyes looked very dully into hers. She knew that it was dreadfully cold; her drenched arms and chest were dreadfully cold; and he was in that icy water to his shoulders. "Try to stick it out Don't give in It's only a minute or two longer The Terror must come " she cried fiercely. His eyes gazed at her piteously; and she began to sob without feeling ashamed of it. Then his eyes filled with that dreadful look of hopeless bewildered distress of a very sick child; and they rolled in their sockets scanning the cold sky in desperate appeal. They terrified...
| ISBN-13 | 9781443251310 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1443251313 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 116 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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