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"The right given by Alhty God to protect any one of your sex in

peril," he replied "Before dawn those savage fiends will be upon us

We are utterly helpless There remains only one possible path for

escape, and I believe I have discovered it Now, irl, you either

climb those rocks with me, or I shall kill you where you are It is

that, or the Sioux torture I have two shots left in this gun,--one

for you, the other forwhich of

these alternatives you prefer"

The glea the steel of his revolver, and she

realized that he meant what he threatened

"If I select your bullet rather than the rocks, what then?"

"You will get it, but in that case you will die like a fool"

"You have believed me to be one, all this afternoon"

"Possibly," he admitted; "your words and actions certainly justified

some such conclusion, but the opportunity has arrived for causing me to

revise that suspicion"

"I don't care to have you, revise it, Mr Bob Hao, I