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They never saw the helicopter; only its shadow as it passed over theed into the arroyo and up the other side, obviously frightened by the helicopter

Carmen looked at Alex "Do you think they were after the horses?"

"I don't know"

"Do you think they saw us?"

"I don't think so" Alex slowly rose and brushed the sand froe of the arroyo and peered over After a few one I don't think they were after the horses" He sighed "It was fortunate that the horses caht our horse was part of the herd…but noe don't have a horse"

Carave him a wry smile and patted the saddle "But we have a saddle"

He reached down and untangled the canteen from the horn "More iun and stood, looking around

Carmen stood and brushed sand from her clothes "Do you think they'll come back?"

He glanced at her "I wish I kneho they were We ht have hidden froht Bad as that ht be, it wasn't nearly as bad as if they had waved their hands for attention and been shot down by drug dealers At least they knehere they were Well, Alex probably did She wasn't sure They were on foot now, but fortunately they were both fit and able to walk

"Are we just going to leave the saddle here?"

His eyes mocked her and his sed and waved a hand "Lead the way Kemosabe"

He put the canteen strap over his shoulder and held the rifle in his other hand, pointed down His steps were not hurried, which surprised Car faster than this?"

"It would be nice," he said, not breaking his stride, "but we need to conserve both energy and fluid Sweating causes a loss of body fluid We're fortunate that it isn't as hot today as it usually gets" He waved a hand at the ? We need to be careful Even if it isn't raining here, water can come down these arroyos frogerating That would take a lot of water

They left the arroyo when it turned away from the low spot between the mountains that Alex had indicated It looked like it couldn't beit didn't look any closer