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Let us cut for it! When thieves fall out; you know the old saying"

They ran back several yards and discovered a kind of chaset out of this after all Are you strong enough

for a stiff cliot to be--John!"

"Trust me, Kathlyn," he replied simply He had but one life, but he

determined then and there to make it equal or outlast the six lives

which stood between hi succeeded in their ht themselves of

their prisoners, only to find that they had vanished Faerly in pursuit They

reasoned that if an old ht naturally be worth twice as ers, they had tasted blood

A shout caused Bruce to turn Instantly he raised his rifle, and

pulled the trigger The result was un had not

been loaded He snatched Kathlyn's rifle, but this, too, was useless

The brigands yelled exultantly and began to swarun and turned his attention to a boulder

Halfway up the chasm had a width which was little broader than the

shoulders of an ordinary man He waited till he saw the wretches

within a yard or so of this spot, then pushed this boulder It roared

and crashed and bounded, and before it reached the narrow pathway Bruce

had started a mate to it Then a third followed This caused a

terrific slide of rocks and boulders, and the brigands turned for their

lives