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as his life is worth to betray h "But aste ti seen Let me assist you toher up without any apparent

effort on to the saddle of a mule which one of the ave some rapid orders

"Follow me and ride carefully, señorita, for there are sootiate," he called to Myra "Mendoza will lead

your mule at the most perilous places Avanzar!"

To anyone less accustoht ride through the mountains of the Sierra Morena would have been a

blood-curdling and nerve-shattering experience Often she had to guide

her h path barely a couple of yards wide, with a sheer

drop of hundreds of feet on one side, a path where a stumble or a false

step on the part of the animal would have meant certain death

Yet Myra was conscious of no sense of fear now, and the dangers only

made her pulse beat faster and stirred her blood But it was no easy

task riding aher seat while

slithering down slopes, clad as she was in only a fil frock

and a fur coat, and she cried out in protest at last: "How ainly brute

er in these clothes"