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It was fully five minutes before he returned but when he did there was a look of satisfaction on his face

"Find it?" asked his principal lieutenant

"Yep," replied Burton "I wouldn't have lost it for anything"

Bridge and his co the wooded path for perhaps a quarter of a e of a flowering bush With raised finger he h the branches ahead The boy and the girl, tense with excite shack, mud plastered; but it was not the hovel which held their irl, bare headed and bare footed, who toiled stubbornly with an old spade at a long, narrow excavation

All too suggestive in itself was the shape of the hole the girl was digging; there was no need of the silent proof of its purpose which lay beside her to tell the watchers that she worked alone in thewrapped in an old quilt lay silently waiting for theof its last bed

And as the three watched her other eyes watched thereat terror, yet now and again half closing in the shrewd expression of cunning that is a hall norance

And as they watched, their over-wrought nerves suddenly shuddered to the grewso of a chain froht to Bridge's sleeve, strove to pull hio back," he whispered in a voice that treed the girl "Here is another path leading toward the north We er paused and raised her head, listening, as though she had caught the faint, whispered note of huirl of nineteen or twenty, dressed in a old and silver coins looped around her olive neck Her bare araudy, others rought froold and silver Froold coins Her whole appearance was barbaric, her occupation cast a sinister haze about her; and yet her eyes see