Little need be added. The unflinching courage, the quiet persistence and the inexhaustible zeal of Major Powell enabled him to achieve a geographical exploit which had been deemed wholly impracticable, and which in adventurousness puts most of the feats of the Alpine Club in the shade. But the narrative may derive a further interest from one other fact concerning this intrepid explorer, whom we have seen standing at the bow of his boats and guiding them over tempestuous falls, rapids and whirlpools, soaring among the crags of almost perpendicular canon-walls and suspended by his fingers from the rocks four hundred feet above the level of the river: Major Powell is a one-armed man! WILLIAM H. RIDEING. ADAM AND EVE. CHAPTER XXX. For an instant every one seemed paralyzed and transfixed in the position into which upon Jonathan's entrance they had started. Then a sudden rush was made toward the door, which several of the strongest blocked up, while Adam called vainly on them to stand aside and give the chance of more air. Joan flew for water, and Jerrem dashed it over Jonathan. There was a minute of anxious watching, and then slowly over Jonathan's pallid face the signs of returning animation began to creep. "Now, stand back--stand back from him, do!" said Adam, fearing the effect of so many faces crowding near would only serve to further daze his scared senses.--"What is it, Jonathan? what is it, lad?" he asked, kneeling down by him. Jonathan tried to rise, and Adam motioned for Barnabas Tadd to come and assist in getting him on his feet. "Now, sit down there," said Adam, "and put your lips to this, and then tell us what's up." Jonathan cowered down as he threw a hasty glance round, the meaning of which was answered by a general "You knaws all of us, Jonathan, don't ee?" "Iss," said Jonathan, breaking into a feeble laugh, "but somehows I'd a rinned till I'd got 'em all, as I fancied, to my heels, close by." "And where are they, then?" said Adam, seizing the opportunity of getting at the most important fact. "Comin' 'long t' roadway, man by man, and straddled on to their horses' backs. They'm to take 'ee all, dead or livin', sarch by night or day. Some o' 'em is come all the ways fra Plymouth, vowin' and swearin' they'll have blid for blid, and that if they can't pitch 'pon he who fired to kill their man every sawl aboard the Lottery shall swing gallows-high for un." A volley of oaths ran through the room, Joan threw up her arms in despair, Eve groaned aloud. Suddenly there was a movement as if some one was breaking from a detaining hand. 'Twas Jerrem, who, pushing forward, cried out, "Then I'll give myself up to wance: nobody sha'n't suffer 'cos o' me. I did it, and I wasn't afeared to do it, neither, and no more I ain't afeared to answer for it now." The buzz which negatived this offer bespoke the appreciation of Jerrem's magnanimity.