Theatre.
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CHAPTER XL.
The Man In the Shadow.
Two hundred feet. If one. Hopi Jim
fell from the lip of the cliff Then sud
denly the thing that had been Hopi
Jim Flade was checked in Its headlong
descent by the outstanding trunk of a
tree, vver which it remained, doubled
up. limp, horrible . . .
The miniature landslide that had
been caused by bls fall went on,
lettllr.g gradually ns the slope be
came less sheer. Only part of it, a
double handful of pebbles, gained tho
bottom of the canyon.
Its mufn< d Impact on the ground
round his feet roused the man who
had compassed the handit'B death from
the pose be had unconsciously as-
Burned on the Instant of firing.
He stepped back, and snatched up
a case containing binoculars.
Not befofe the glasses were adjusted
to his vision did he find time to re
spond absently to th« alarmed and In
sistent inquiries of his two compan
ions, a man of his own age and a girl
of some years less, who had been
wakened from their rliep by the re-
port of the rifle.
Now the latter plucked 11U sleeve,
momcntarilj' deflecting the glasses
from the object which they were fol
lowing SO sedulously as it moved
along the heights; a wildly running
horse with a woman bound helpless
upon its back, both sharply in sil
houette against the burning blue.
"Alan'” tho girl demanded, "what
Is It? Why did you fire? Why won't
you answer me? What Is It?”
“Judith," Alan replied tersely, again
picking up with the glasses the run
away horse that fled so madly along
the perilous and narrow track of the
hill trail.
The name waa echoed from two
throuts as Alan swung sharply and
thrust the glasses Into the hands of
the girl.
of
"Judith,"
to
poignant solicitude,
the back of-that crazy broncho- help
less! See for yourself; one false step
—suppose a stone turns bentath Its
hoof—she'll he killed!"
While th<' g'rl focused
upon that speck that flew
rky Alan turmd to the
hobbled m ar by and seizing a saddle
tnrew it over the back of one.
At this the other man turned to his
side and dropping a detaining hand
Upon his arm naked:
"Wbat are you going to do?”
Alan ehook the hand oft r.nd went
on with his si if appoint! d task
"Go after her. Tom. of course," he
replied. ' What else? That animal is
crazy, I tell you
"Even so," Tom Bareus argued, "you
enn’t climb that hillsid en horseback -
and if you could, you'd bo too I:.to to
catch up, much less pri vent un ac-
cident—•"
"I know It. But suppose it doesn't
fall . . . You- know what's beyond
these lillls- deserts! And the girl in
helpless. I till you. bound hand nnd
foot. Think of her being c;-riled that
way—all day, perhaps face up to this
brutal sun! File'll go mad If uonie-
thing Isn’t done—"
"You’ve gona mad yourself already,"
Mq Bareus contended darkly. “What's
it to you if she does? Suppose you do
succeed In rescuing her: what then?
As soon as she gi ts on her plno she'll
try to stick a knife into you--like ns
not What's she been chasing you fur,
all over tills land of the brave nnd
home of tin' free, but to take your fool
life' And now you wunt to meritin'
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A.
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1
Moistened
His Parched
Throat.
Lipa
and
yourself to her, out of sheer, down
fight foolishness In the head! 1 sup-
lose you'll like mo to call It chivalry:
i'll tell yon what I call it—lunacy!"
"Don’t be an ni«!" Alan .responded
temperately, gathering the reins to
gether and instinctively lifting a foot
tc. the stirrup. “Who warned us yv
terdny In time to prevent our b-'ing
crushed by Hurt rock? Judith! Why
was she sofmrated from Marrophat
and the others alone up there when
that beast rneaki it up behind her—>O.
1 law him—I saw It all and grubbed
her and roped her to that brouco -if
It wasn't Iterative she had broken with
them ter good and all and started to
baht on cur aide?"
“You're raving." Rat cue commented
In a hopeless tone lie looked to the
girl
Ress Miss Trlu«—reasou with
thia madman—"
’'•aiislvg Ih. glasses, the girl cam-»
•■■nlldently to her lover’»
II
Ms.
» told
i for the boni»-
•^»Law rather, d
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him.
I
to avert It—no mnttc«- what we may
have suffered at Judith's hands?"
With an Indignant grunt, but con
siderate nene the less, Mr. Ilarcus
caught up the glasses end turned his
bark. . . .
“Go on!" be grurrbi. d, | rt tending
to Ignore the hand Ainu offered him
from the saddle. 'Tve git no pat'cnce
with you . . . But go!" he Insisted,
of a sodden. rclzfrg the hand and
pressing ft fervently, ".'.nd God go
with you, my friend?”
Then hoofbeats <!ri reining en th“
hard-packed earth cf t!“ cmyon tr il
struck a hundred rc'ru frem its
rugged, rocky wails.
Mr. Bareus showed I! .-*• Trine a
face almost ludicrous with its an
guished smile that was Intended to
ream reasrurtng.
"Let’s leek >!iarp and follow him
ns quick as may bo." ho urge I Light
ning will never strike us to 'eng as
we stick to Mr. Law of th " charmed
life— but I don’t mind telling you. once
out of his company, I'm just naturally
afraid of the dark!”
CHAPTER XLI.
Alan had fallen In ills dizzy blindness,
bhe found him insensible, lying with
to HR and r.hake lil o the top of a
caqias tent in a gale. At the same an arm b nt under him in a pose
tit t a mighty gust of wind swept frightfully suggestive of dislocation.
athwart the waste, hot a a furnace- Yet when sho turned him on his back
bl.-wt. In a trice dust enveloped man and released the arm. he made no
and horse, a stilling cloud of super sign to indicate that the movement
heated particles that stung the flesh liad caused him the sliv.nest pain.
There was a slight cut upon ills
like a myriad needles. And then dark-
n*ss fell, tlm twilight of hades, a cop brow, a bruise about his left temple.
per-colored pall. Nothing remained She tore linen from her basom, be
neath her coarse flannel shirt, and with
visible beyond arra s length.
Bliudcd. half suffocated, unspeak- sparing aid from the ca-.tun, washed
cb’y dismay-id and bewildered, the the cut clean and bandaged it.
Thon seeing that the storm held
bri 'icho swung round, back to tlie
bl: . t. and refused to badge another I with fury unabated, fli: rose, recon
noitered and returned to < x rt all her
incn.
Himself more than half-dazed, but I strength and drag tho unconscious
still hounded by his nightmare vision I man across the dry bed of that ancient
of Judith. Alan dismounted to escape water-course and under the lee of its
being torn bodily from the saddle by farther bank.
There, sitting, she pillowed his
that hellish sandblast, and seizing i
the bridle sought to draw the horse head upon her lap. and bending over
him made her bedy an additional shel
on with him.
He wasted his strength in that en- ter to him from the swirling clouds
d avor: the animal balked, planted of dust
And for hours on end Judith nursed
its hoofs deep in tlie sand, stiffened
its legs and resisted with the stub- him there, scarce daring to movo
b irnn. ss of a rock: then, of a sudden, save to minister to his needs, bathing
jerked his head smartlyf snapped the his fevered brow and moistening his
bridle from his grasp and flung away, parched lips and throat.
In the course of the first hour she
scudding before the storm.
Pursuit was out of the question: was onco startled by the spectral vis-
indeed, the bridle was barely torn
The Trail cf Flying
. _ Hoof Prints.
In the still air of that young day the
chill cf night lingered stubbornly— ;
and would until the shadow of the
eastern rampart had crept slowly
down the canyen's western wall, tele
scopi <1 upon ft. If and vanished, let
ting in the run to in ike the place a
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pit if torment and of burning.
Refresh! d from rest and exhilarated
Í
bi ; horsed
I by this grateful coolness,
responded willingly to the first light
touch of Alan's sj i.r. In a twinkling
the overnight camp dropped from view
bi hind the rounded should r of a hill
side, mesquite-cloaked.
Then fr qi Its first spirited* flight
tile horn1 settl'd down to steady go
ing. lengthened its str!'! ', and ran for
leagues with tho long apparently ef-
ft rtlcss and tlr lots lope of the plains-
brid brcnclpf. ventre-a-terre.
Alan's departure f:om cz.rnp had
tlcipaifd by a round quarter-hour
appearance on the unper trail
friends cf the rl in bird t to
numb' r of four or five, who in I li
dlBcovi n d nnd ri covt red his b<
called lifs death murder aud pl ilged
th* ms* ivi s to its nvongement laying
responsibility for the putative cpimo
nt tin' doer of the man and woman
to be seen In the canyon. Immediately
below the sc* ne cf He ,1 Jim's fall.
Between tho m ment when discov
ery of tlie nun on tile ridge trail ill-
terruptid their ihnplo ami hurried
breakfast and that which found Hose
: nil Bareus mounted on (lie hick of
“Rosa—Miss Trine—Reason With the Madman—
tin ir own borin' anil making tlie best
' of their way down th“ canyon in pur from his hand before Alan lost sight I ion through the driving sheets of dust
suit cf Alan, but little time had of the brcncho.
of a horse that plodded up the arroyo,
elapsed.
For a moment he stood rooted in bearing two riders on its back.
And even with Its double burden, consternation as in a bog—with an
Weary with the weight of its double
their horse made It.'Hi r tirin' upon arm upthrown across his face.
burden, it went slowly and passed so
the broad lower lei I than those who
Then the thought of Judith re- near to Judith that she was able to
followed the ridge trail By mid morn curred. . . .
recognize the features of her sister
ing, when tin v approach* d the foot
Head bended and shoulders rounded, and Tom Bareus.
hills Hint ran down to the ill's* rt. the
began to forge a way into the teeth
Be sure she made never a sign to
pursuit waa more than a mill' In the of the sandstorm.
catch their attention.
rear Hiid shut off to boot by il 111O11O-
How long hv fought on, pitting his
Within the next succeeding hour
lithic hill, while Alan was many a i trength against the elements, cannot
the coppery light lost something of
weary mile tn advance.
be re ckoned.
its hot brillance, took on a darker
lie sat upon liis horse Just then, at
In tlie end ho stumbled blindly down shade, and then one darker still. Twi
standstill upon tho summit of n round a «light decline and w»s abruptly
light stole athwart the desert, turning
ed knoll, tli*' Painted Hills lifting up conscious that lie had in some way
its heat to chill, its light to violet.
behind Him, the desert before unfold found shelter from the full force of tho
Growing mere intense, the cold
ing like a map—but like a map all wind.
eventually roused the sleeping man.
blurred.
He staggered on nnother yard or
And hardly had Ills eyes unclosed
Only In tlv> near foreground was two, breathing more freely, and blun-
anything definite to b • distinguished di red into a rough ribbi d wall of rock and looked up into-the eyes of Judith
In tlie impact of Hr t Bunbl ten waste— —some sporadic outcrop, ho under bending over him than he started up
bleu* lieil tnrih patterned in almost or stood. whose bulk stood between him , and out of her embrace, got unstead-
. Ily upon his feet and after a moment
derly arrangement by sagebrush and and tho storm.
cf pause, watching her rise in turn,
gnarled cacti. At tlie distance of half
He thought to
a time, until strode away -or. rather, staggered—
n mile nil blended into one vast plain the storm had
its greatest with the gesture of exorcism.
of glaring gray that rtretched ovi r strength: but as
his shoulder
Uncomplaining, hugging her new
the round of the world to n broken gratefully agaii
reek and born humility to her with the ecstasy
wall of purple hills that ru led drui.k- scrubbed the dm
i f the anchorite his horse hair shirt,
only In the haze n ili .1 southwest.
eyes he saw what he at first conceived
Was Judith out there, rmnewhere, to be a hallucination: Judith Trine Judith followed him patiently, at a
lost, defenseless, forlorn, impotent to standing within a ya::’, nf him, alive, little distance.
Not far from where he had rested
lift u hand to shield her face frcin the strong, free.
, there was a break in the overhanging
blast of that savage run?
lie stared incredulously, saw hi r
Staring ivii. :t'li n :'lading hand. He recognize him. open her mouth to wall of the arroyo. Through this he
discerned nothing that moved u|>on Utter a wondering cry that was inaudi scrambled painlully, reaching the level
cf the de a rt only after cruel effort,
tlie surface of tho d. ert but its ble. and come quickly nearer.
■ the unheeded woman at his heels.
myriad I. td vil-i Ji -'n t monoto
“Alan! You came for me! You fol
A brief pause there afforded both
nously tin Ir infernal il.-.i: e ma>al>:e. lowed me, through all this!"
time to regain their breath and survey
Or- as si l ined tiiore prohibit w -i
He threw o.T her hand with a bitter
ttie desert for signs of assistance: it
b I io ba. k tin i > sinong the Painted
laugh—that was like the croaking of a
hills, lying Mill mid lifeli i. crushed raven as it issued from his bone-dry offend nene, other than what they
beneath Hie wel 'lit of that fallen throat—and In momentary possession might accomplish through their own
i xerticns For leagues in any quarter
horse?
cf hysteric madness, reeled away from it stn tclb d w ithout a bri ak other than
No reef fer Alan till ho know . .
the woman and the shelter of the rock tho black cleft of the arroyo, gleaming
Descending tlie knoll he r. ined his and delivered himself anew to the
a bleached and deathly white In the
Ini glug mount back Into th» trail, fol- mercy of the dust-storm.
moonshine—like the face of a frozen
loi Ing Its winding ccui o through tho
world.
foothills «nd round the base of that
CHAPTER XLII.
W ith tacit consent both turned that
monolithic mountain toward die junc
way, Alan leading, Judith his pertina-
tion with the rldgo trail, miles away.
Open Mutiny.
1 us shadow, with never a word or
It approached the hour of noon be
Though she had been schooled to hoi 1 sign I < tw en them to prove that either
fore ho gained tlie point where the tho vt ry name of Law In loathing un-
two trails joined anil struck ent acie < . speakable and to think of Alan as a was aware of the other's company.
But this was a state of affairs that
tlie desert. And here ho discover, J | mortnl enemy anil as eno whose death
what lie thought indisputable indica j Hi n.i could prepirlv requite the cruel could r.i t long er.dure. Judith had the
tlim that «the fright of Judith's het o i injury that had been done her father; price to pay for her own trials, suf-
li ring and privation: the strain began
had per-lst< d
i nnd though the man himself had
Abandoning Immediately nil nm q . laughe 1 to iv wa hi r first Involuntary to tell sorely upon her. She reeled
'i.ditly as she walked, weaving a
of returning through tho hills b> the j eonf* . sien of taat love tor him which
ridge trail, he turned and swung awav | now consumed her being with Its in- winding trail across and across the
at the best pace lie could spur from iatiiib:e tlr* s. she swallowed her straighter line cf footprints that
his broncho, delivering himself Into chagrin and followed him with the marked Alan's course through the or
the pitiless embrace of that implaca rciicitude of one Mho-“ !cve can rocog dered pattern of the powdered sage
brush.
ble wilderness of sun and sand
I'.i.e no’wrong in its object. Through
And of a sudden she collapsed.
At long Intervals lie would check all tlie rernainiler of that day of terror
Instinct alone made Alan glance
the brcncho and. reeling tn his saddle, she wu never far from his side.
endeavor to sweep the desert with his
ov er shoulder: fer she had made no
M ith the nu ekr. ss of the strong.
binoculars.
sound whatever.
File in-ide her e k his shadow. An.l
And toward the middle of the after
He turned and came directly back
she was now the stronger, for «he hail
noon ho fancied that somithing re
to her. knelt beside her. lifted her
had more than nu hour’s rest beside
warded one such effort. - -i. thin •
head, pillowed It gently on his arm
the waterhole which he had missed
for an Instant swi m athwart th<
Id
and plied her in turn with the dregs
on
the
way
of
that
rocky
windbreak.
oftheel,-..
.
of the canteen.
Sooner or later his strength must fail
to move like a weary horse with a
With a sigh. a stifled moan and a
him and he would need hir; till then
human figure bound to its back
little shiver, she revived.
she w«s content to bide her hour.
Put now the phenomena were ills- ’
He helped her gently to regain her
It befell presently in startling rash
rernlble which, bad h tv en m *re des
feet, passed an arm round her.
ion; she was not a yard behind him
ert wise. Mould have made him
In this fashion they struggled on in
when he vanished abruptly
s'*.I th'tik before h. iintur. d farther
strange, dumb ccmpianionship of mis
But
the
next
moment
Judith
herself
from th«.« inn, already bt youd
ery and wonder.
was trembling on tho cruwbl'ng brink
reach as they were.
Thus an hour passed; and for all
cf an arroyo of depth and width in-
His first appre'- -ted warning cam * <’
th. ir desperate struggles neither could
rm'”: ’. !<,
ta. cb €UI
Cf
tahi u
04
»cctuvd
® tim: the 1 oht .n the mountainside
i ¿¿.utanu. L.j.a i__ _ <-i .denti), k?
>ag * yaid tba ni-uxr.
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Behind them other lights appeared,
two staring yellow eyes that peered
up over the horizon, seemed to pausa
a time in search of the two, then
leaped out dirtctly toward them.
Of this they were altogether ignor
ant; and when a deep droning sound
disturbed the desert silence, like the
purring of tome gigantic cat, both
both as-
as
cribed it to the drumming of their
laboring pulses.
The two lights were not a mile be
hind them when, silently, without a
sign to warn the girl, Alan released
her, tcck a step apart and dropped
as if shet.
Instantly she was kneeling by his
side. But in the act of bending over
him she drew back and remained for
several moments motionless, staring
at those twin glaring eyes, sweeping
down upon them with all the speed
attainable by a six-cylinder touring car
negotiating a trackless desert.
When Judith did move it was not to
comfort Alan. On the contrary, her
first act was to draw from her pocket
a heavy, blunt-nosed revolver, break it
nt the breech and blow Its barrel
clear of dust. Her hand went next
to the holster on Alan’s hip. From
this she extracted hi3 Colt's .45, treat
ing it as she had the other. Then she
crcuched low above the man she loved,
as if thinking perhaps to escape notice
from the occupants of the motorcar.
If that were her thought, it was bred
of an idle hope. Alan had chosen to
fall in the middle of a wide space so
arid that not even sagebrush had ven
tured to take root there. When the
glare of the headlights fell upon them
it was inevitable that discovery should
follow. The motor car stopped within
twenty feet. Three men jumped out
and ran toward the pair, leaving two
in the ear—the chauffeur and one who
occupied a corner of the rear seat:
an aged qjan with the face of a damned
soul, doomed for a little time to live
upon this earth in the certain knowl
edge of his damnation.
As this happened, Judith Trine
leaped to her feet and stood over the
body of Alan, a revolver poised in
either hand.
"Halt!" the ordered imperatively.
"Hands up!”
The three who had alighted obeyed
without a moment's hesitation; her
father's creatures, they knew the
daughter’s temper far too well to
dream of opposing her will.
In the six hands that were sib
houetted against the headlights’ radi
ance, three revolvers glimmered; but
at her command all three dropped
harmlessly to the earth.
Then, sharply, “Stand back two
paces!” she required.
They humored her unanimously.
Darting forward, she picked up and
pocketed the three weapons, then with
one of her own singled out the men
she named.
“Now, Marrophat—and you. Hicks—
pick Mr. Law up and carry him into
tlm car. And treat him gently, mind!
If*one of you lifts a finger to harm
him, that one shall answer to me.”
Still none ventured to dispute her.
The two men designated, without a
sign of disinclination, stepped forward.
One lifted Alan Law by the shoulders:
the other took the legs. Between them
they bore him with every care toward
the motor car.
But now a second will manifested
itself. The man in the rear seat lifted
up a weirdly sonorous voice:
“Stop!" he cried. “Stop this non
sense!
Drop that man! Judith, I
command you—”
“Be silent!" the girl cut in sharply.
"I command here—if it’s necessary to
tell you.”
There was a pause of astonishment.
Then the old man broke out in exas
peration that threatened to wax into
fury: "Judith! What do you mean by
this? Has it indeed come to this that
my own daughter defies me to my
face?”
"Apparently!" she shot back, with
a short laugh. "Judge for yourself!”
“Have you forgotten your vow to
me?”
“No. But I take it back and cancel
it: that is my privilege, I believe. . . .
Silence!” she stormed as he strove
to gainsay her.
“Silence—do you
hear?—or it will be the worse for
you! ”
As well command the sea to still
Its voice: her father raged like a mad
man that he was, for the time being
divested of his habitual mask of frigid
heartlessness.
And seeing that there was no other
way of quieting him, the girl turned
to the third man.
"Now Jimmy!" she said crisply.
"Into that car—and be quick about It
—and gag him!”
“If you do,” her father foamed, "I’ll
have your life—”
A flourish of her weapons gained
Instant obedience.
She stepped up on the running board
and shot a quick, searching glance
at the face of the chauffeur.
"Straight ahead, my man!” she said.
"Make for. the nearest pass through
those hills yonder, and don't delay
unless you are anxious for trouble. Off
you go!”
The car began to move. She swept
the three men in the desert a mocking
bow. jumped into the body of the car
and slammed the door.
They made no effort «Xo plead their
cause and secure passage even as far
as the edge of the desert; doubtless
they knew too weH the futility of that,
she thought, as she settled back in a
seat, chuckling with the memory of
those three masks of dismay unmiti
gated.
It was not until five minutes later,
when she straightened up from making
Alan comfortable that she realized
what had made them so content to
abide by her will.
Then she heard their voices lifted
togethdr in a lca^shrlU howl tha.
quickly answered by fainter yells irouT
a distant quarter of the desert, the#
by pistcis popping and flashing some
two miles away, then by a growing
rumble of galloping hoof3.
The night glasses in the car afforded
her flashes of a body of several horse
men—some six or seven, she judged—
making at top speed toward the spot
where Marrophat. Hicks and J.nimy
waited beside a beacon which t hey
had built and lighted.
Half a dozen sentences exchanged
with the chaufTeur advised her that
these were horsemen from tho town
of Mesa who had charged them?’ Ives
with the duty of avenging the death
of Hopi Jim Slade.
A sardonic chuckle from within
Trine's gag goaded the girl into a sul
len fury.
Exacting his utmost speed from tho
chauffeur, under penalty of her dis
pleasure, she set herself to revive
Alan.
With the aid of such stores of food
and drink as the car carried, this was
quickly enough accomplished.
Strangling with an overdose of
brandy, too little diluted with water,
Alan sat up. grasped the conditions
in a flash, and gained further informa
tion as he devoured sandwiches and
emptied a canteen.
The mountain pass was now, he
judged, a mile distant, The light on
the hillside, according to the chauf-
feur, was that of a prospector who
had camped there temporarily. There
was nothing, then, to be feared from
that quarter, but solely from the rear
—where the horsemen, having picked
up Marrophat and his companions,
had instituted hot pursuit, and were
now strung out in a long, straggling
line, three horses carrying double the
farthermost—perhaps a mile and a
half away—one with a single rider
the nearest, well within three-quar
ters of a mile.
Nobly mounted, this last came on
like the wind, gaining on the motor
car with every stride; for his horse
was trained to such going, whereas
the car at best could only labor heav
ily in dust and sand.
None the less, it had won to a point
within a quarter of a mile from the
pass before the horseman got within
what he esteemed the proper range,
an J opened fire.
He fired thrice. His first shot winged
wide, his second by Ill-chance ripped
through a rear tire of the car, thus
placing upon It an additional handi
cap. while his third sought the zenith
as his hands flew up and he dropped
from the saddle, drilled through the
body by Alan’s only shot.
A long-range pistol duel was in
progress before the car had covered
half the remaining distance to the
pass.
By the time it entered this last,
which proved to be a narrow ravine
with towering side of crumbly earth
and shale and broken rock, the pur
suit was not a hundred yards behind,
while the firing was well-nigh contin
uous.
Two hundred feet' above the trail
two men were working with desperate
haste at some mysterious business—
though none noticed them.
Only the chauffeur was aware of a
woman running down the hillside at
an angle, to intercept the car several
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X-
“Straight Ahead, My Man!” She Said,
hundred yards from the mouth of the
pass.
As it drew near the spot where sho
paused, waving both hands frantically,
the head of the pursuing party swept
into the mouth of th* ravine.
At the same time the chauffeur no
ticed that the two men on the hillside
were following the woman pelknell,
throwing themselves down the slope
with gigantic leaps and bounds.
And then a great explosion rent the
peaceful hush of night—that till then
had been profaned by the pattering
cracks of the revolver fusillade.
As the roar of dynamite Bubsided
the entire side of th« hill shifted and
slid ponderously down, choking the
ravine with debris to the depth of
some thirty or forty feet, burying the
leaders of the pursuit beyond hope of
rescue.
Only a instant later the motor car
jolted to a halt and Alan pulled him
self together to find that Rose and
Bareus were standing beside the door
and Jabbering joyful greetings, mixed
with more or less incoherent explana
tions of the manner in which they had
come to seek shelter for the night in
the prospector’s shack and, roused
by the noise of firing and recognizing
Alan in the car by the aid of spy
glasses, had with the prospector's aid
hit upon this scheme of shooting a
lend.!!de n between the pv ;u.t and
lta devoted uuarry.
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