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Alex rode in the opposite direction fro until they were far enough away that there was no chance anyone would hear them
"The van is the other way, isn't it?"
He nodded "Yes, but I don't want to lead them to the children"
Of course, they were decoys "But we need to go to them They won't knohat to do"
Alex leaned to the side and dug the phone out of his pocket, handing it to Carive Dadon"
Carmen selected Jonathan's na the phone to her ear When nothing happened, she looked down at it "The battery is dead"
Alex groaned "That's just great"
How long had it been dead? Had his father heard anything? And yet, the guard had been playing with it Maybe he gave up because he couldn't get anything on it Hopefully he was the reason the battery was dead
The guard would be released when reinforce would that be and how far could they get before vehicles overtook them?
After a while they came to an arroyo lined with Palo Verde trees Alex reined the horse in a direction that would take the back, but no one was following as far as Car, Alex crossed it and rode a short distance before backing the horse up to the rocks At that point he followed the rocks out of the arroyo He rode for a while before turning the horse back parallel to the arroyo, retracing their steps only a few hundred feet from the arroyo When they crossed another arroyo, he turned back toward the original arroyo He rode a short distance before stopping again They dismounted and he helped Car in this sand until you get to the other arroyo," he said as he grabbed a dry li to brush out our tracks as well as I can When you get to the arroyo go that way" He pointed the opposite direction froinally traveled when they first came to the arroyo "Stop at that tree and wait forbut his directions left no rooument She started the horse in the direction he had indicated and when she calanced back, watching him brush the branch over the loose sand in the arroyo floor She watched until he was out of sight and when she came to the tree, she stopped to wait for him