Days Gone By

Chapter 84

When she rounded a corner, she came face to face with the large mass of water, it was the river! She closed her eyes and thanked her star, but as it was, she was still at a loss as to how she would cross the river and reach the other side. There was no ship in sight, and nobody there either. She knew they had anchored here the day she was brought, and getting to the other side would be the beginning of the end of her trouble, but how was she going to do that?

Cautiously, she approached the river, making a mental note of the bank. From where she stood, she could not see the edge or the end of the river and that only increased her fear. Had she come this far only to be trapped here? Certainly not. And what would she have done if she had found a ship here? Paddled it across? She knew next to nothing about that as well. At this point, she was desolate. But even then, she knew there was only one thing she could do.

She turned the horse in the direction on her right hand and dug