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"Whoa," Alex said gently as he brought the horse under control He reached down to Caret your leg over until you are up high enough to do so safely"

She reached up and he grabbed her left ar the h, she lifted her right leg and wiggled over the horse's back in a most unladylike manner Finally seated behind Alex, she put her arh to know that it was neither comfortable nor easy to stay on the horse

Alex didn't appear to have any probleer than hers, but he was also sitting closer to the girth instead of trying to straddle the barrel

They ress on the horse, but now they werefor theain, if no one knew to look for them here, that didn't leave much chance of rescue, either

She lifted her head froet there before dark"

"How can you be sure where we are?"

He chuckled "Jonathan and I studied the nize the shape of this mountain"

She frowned "There was a picture of the mountain?"

"In a way; the contour lines indicated the elevation Ever since I can remember, I've had the ability to see it in my mind's eye as 3-D Dad was always iet topographic maps of an area and I would draw it as it would look Then ould go there and see what it actually looked like Of course, that exercise iainst his back again "You never told me about that"

He was silent for a fewWhen he finally answered, his voice was controlled "I haven't done it since he died"

And likely would have avoided it had the need not arisen It had taken hiical father to call him Dad Yet when they were in the cabin, Señor Medina was the first person he thought of for help That would have et the actual request for help from Jonathan or Katie Actually, that wasn't an unfortunate outcome Hopefully someone would call for help, since neither she nor Alex could