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Fritz was sluishly with the sway of hisdisinterestedly at thesullenly from under the brim of his hat The sun was directly overhead Heat waves blurred the dunes around them

Bordeaux led them into a dish shaped depression at the top of a dune and then disive the mules a rest while I look over our back trail"

He pulled his field glasses fro and motioned to Cassie "Come on Let's take a look"

She stumbled up the dune behind him and stopped when he held out a hand He dropped to the sand and crawled the rest of the way to the top, peering over the edge before he motioned for her to continue She crawled up the dune and knelt beside hilasses from the sun with lasses were shaded

"Why?"

"So they don't reflect the sunlight and give away our position"

She leaned across hilasses as he had shown her The desert lay still and parched all around the," she said

"Hopefully, they don't see us either But we're here, all the same"

Her throat constricted Were they out there? What would they do if they caught up? She snuggled closer to Bordeaux

He lowered the glasses and rolled over on his back, gazing up into her face His expression was unreadable

"Pete tells me there's a preacher in Ashley"