Page 124 (1/2)

She could hear Don Carlos shouting to her to stop, and fancied she

could hear hiain

she cae of a ravine, and she had to creep cautiously along

the edge of a rough and treacherous path

Glancing over her shoulder after she had crossed the most perilous

part, Myra saw that Don Carlos was now close behind her, and that she

must inevitably be overtaken Almost she succumbed to a mad impulse to

hurl herself to destruction into the ravine, but in the e she heard the sound of reat boulder blocked her view of thethe rock she saithin a hundred yards of her, a

co order up the

mountain Myra cried out breathlessly, some of the men saw her and

shouted excitedly and one who see

towards her and reached her side just as Don Carlos appeared behind her

"Myra, Myra!" shouted Don Carlos "Do not----"

Myra did not hear the rest of his shout Excitedly she clutched the

arm of the officer of the Guardia Civil

"Save asped "That man is El Diablo Cojuelo! Don

Carlos is El Diablo Cojuelo! Do you understand? Don't let him take me