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On the first trip to the cliff top eight uard Barbara Harding The second trip was made with equal dispatch and safety No sound or movement ca men On the second trip Divine and Theriere each carried a burden up the cliffs, Miller and Swenson folloith Barbara Harding, and as they came Oda Yorimoto and his saht pass unobserving

Theriere had the bulk of the loot hidden in a rocky crevice just beyond the cliff's suetation that covered the ground was strewn over the cache All had been accomplished in safety and without detection The camp beneath them still lay wrapped in silence

The uidance of Divine, was immediately undertaken On the return trip after the search for water Divine had discovered a well-e of the cliffs to a point opposite the spring, and another leading fronorance he had thought these the runways of anihways of the head-hunters

Now they presented a comparatively quick and easy approach to the destination of the mutineers, but so narrow a one as soon to convince Theriere that it was not feasible for hi the flank of his colureatly inconvenienced and retarded the heavily ladennear the center of the cavalcade until the new camp was reached

Here he found a fair-sized space about a clear and plentiful spring of cold water Only a fe bushes dotted the grassy clearing which was alle The men had deposited their burdens, and still Theriere stood waiting for the balance of his party--Miller and Swenson with Barbara Harding

But they did not come, and when, in alarm, the entire party started back in search of them they retraced their steps to the very brink of the declivity leading to the cove before they could believe the testi and the two sailors had disappeared