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endeavoring vainly to peer into the glooed spurts of red and yellow fla wildly to the sharp reports of the

rifles, she shrank cowering back, her fascinated gaze fixed on those

i forward from rock to rock Al hastily back and gathered her in his

aro up, and quick!"

As he thus lifted her she felt the irregularities of rock beneath her

clutching fingers, and scra the narrow

shelf, and then, reaching higher, her groping hands clasped the roots

of a projecting cedar She retained no longer any memory for Hampton;

her brain was co to a frag a slippery branch there,

occasionally helped by encountering a deeper gash in the face of the

precipice, her movements concealed by the scattered cedars, she toiled

feverishly up, led by instinct, like any wild animal desperately driven

by fear, and only partially conscious of the real dread of her terrible

position The first ti hen her feet slipped along a naked root, and she would

have plunged headlong into unknown depths had she not co shoulder Faint and dizzy, and tre

like the leaf of an aspen, she crept forward onto a so painfully from head to

foot A moment of suspense, and he was outstretched beside her,

resting at full length along the very outer edge, his hand closing

tightly over her own