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"And hide in the thicket," she interrupted "Yet--yet--that leaves you

alone I could give you some help;" and her face coloured "You were so

kind as to tell e I could at the least load your

pistols"

"You would do that?" cried Wogan "Aye, but you would, you would!"

For the first tiot to address her with the cereue to the use of it

They were not h his heart would have it so; they

were princess and servant, and every ot it now Delicate she was to look upon as any princess who had

ever adorned a court, delicate and fresh, rich-voiced and young, but

here was the rare woht over store!

"You would load ht "To be

sure, you would do that But I ask you, I think, for a higher courage I

ask you to cli shelter when

there's need, back to that narrow gorge here the path leads

upwards to the bluff There was a hut; two hours would take you to it,