Maid of the Mist

Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham is about the travels and adventures of Pasley Carew and his wife across the western frontier. Excerpt: "You shouldn't have tried it. I told you you were too heavy for her. Stop it, I say!" and he wrenched the crop, all dripping with hair and blood, out of the other's hand, and with difficulty bit off the hot words that surged in his throat. For the man was broken and hardly responsible."