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"Courage, sweet lady, we have but a little further to go," Cojuelo

called back to her over his shoulder

He spoke truly A few minutes later the party halted in a narrow,

pitch-dark ravine, and Myra was lifted from her mule

"Take my arm, señorita, lest you sturound," said the muffled voice of El Diablo Cojuelo "The entrance to

, but I promise you that

you shall find comfort within"

He pressed the switch of an electric torch as he spoke, and guided Myra

over rocky ground to what seemed a mere cleft in a wall of rock

"You will notice that this entrance to e of one person at a time," he resumed "Here a

handful of men could defy an Army Corps, and there are other ive you welcome, sweet lady, to

the fortress of El Diablo Cojuelo"

Myra, again with the sensation that the whole affair was a sort of

fantastic dreaht of

the electric torch, advanced two or three yards, passed through another

cleft at right-angles to the first, and stopped at Cojuelo's bidding

"You perceive, señorita, that we see the light about "What appears to be a solid wall