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"Re heavily "We can be no

safer anywhere else"

She could distinguish the rapid pounding of his heart as well as her

own, , but these

sounds were soon overcome by that of the tumult below Shots and

yells, the dull crash of blows, the shouts ofof innu scream of sudden torture, were borne upward

to them from out the blackness They did not venture to lift their

heads froirl sobbed silently, her slender

forhtly about her

hand All at once the hideous uproar ceased with a final yelping of

triuth of the chasle voice pleaded pitifully,--only to die away in

a shriek The two agonized fugitives lay listening, their ears

strained to catch the slightest sound fro the bald front of the cliff, but

Hauish nothing

His ears could discern evidences ofat a distance, but to the vision all was black The

distance those faint sounds appeared away ainst the girl's body, closing his eyes and