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Jonathan looked at her in surprise "I wasn't going to pick it up, Mom I know it's poisonous"

Carmen wiped the perspiration fro"

It wasn't Jonathan's fault that they were in thisto make the most of the experience It wasn't Jonathan's fault that Alex was out there risking his life, either They were in this thing together whether they wanted to be or not It wouldn't make ree - not any more than it would ru, but there was no point inthe desert their ene her with a syently "He knows things that they don't"

His attempt to console her put a lump in her throat and s that his pursuers didn't but Jonathan didn't know that for sure He idolized Alex That was a good thing up to a point Beyond that it became misplaced trust Alex wasn't invincible and these people had probably been operating in this country for a long ti skill aside, he had been extre the two riders That was probably mostly due to the fact that they had underestiain

Alex said he would try to meet them at the pass He expected the for theed rock peaks with boulder-strewn slopes between them He could be up there in the rocks For that ht

They began their assent of the slope to the pass as the sun was sinking on the horizon It had been two days Surely so for them by now Yet they had seen no indication Maybe the search was being conducted in the other direction They had to disregard every rule of desert survival in order to avoid being recaptured

She scanned the desert below thereen bushes on a red-yellow earth In the background were the khaki-purple mountains In places there were patches of yellow and purple where floere bloo The sky was a deep blue, isps of white clouds The desert had a lot of color