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It was nothing more serious than a hard and toilso every ain and again, panting and exhausted, no

longer stimulated by imminent peril The narrow cleft they followed

led somewhat away from the exposed front of the precipice, yet arose

steep and jagged before theh the solid rock, up

which they were often coed with le desperately, while

once they completely halted before a sheer smoothness of rock wall that

appeared ied finally by a cedar trunk, which

Hampton wrenched from out its rocky foothold, and the two crept

cautiously forward, to eolden at the

surass, barely conscious

that they had finally won their desperate passage

Slowly Ha

head, until he could sit partially upright and gaze unsteadily about

The girl yet remained old in the sunshine, co to sobs of utter exhaustion Before them stretched