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Car to do?"

His s to do my best to stay out of their reach"

He had to have been plagued by the sahtened of being caught And yet, he did what needed to be done This was a side of Alex she had never seen She had always known he had courage and integrity - that he felt intensely responsible for the welfare of his family What she had never seen before was the sheer tenacity in the face of incredible odds He never gave up - never relinquished control Maybe he was controlling to an extent, but every fault had its up side

"Please come back to us" She said, and her voice broke with e to cry

He turned his pal as soon as I can If you keep et across the mountain before dark I'll start back that way then Watch out for snakes Trust your horses If they don't want to go someplace, don't push theerous crossing thatso you can ht"

They left him there, and when they topped the next rise, he was nowhere in sight It would be doubly dangerous for hiht Sure, he could probably outride anyone out there, but he couldn't outrun a bullet By now they wouldn't waste ti him if they could shoot him from a distance They knew he could ride with the best of them and they'd be ready Hopefully they still didn't know about the children, but chances were the two ot back to the others they'd have reason to want Alex dead