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"Silence!" growled the man "What are even a ends of my ancestors We have no need for koku here, and had we, my hills are full of the yellow metal which measures its value No! you are irl "There is another room--away from all these women," and she turned her eyes toward the door at the opposite side of the chaed his shoulders That would be easier than a fight, he argued, and so he led the girl toward the doorway that she had indicated Within the room all was dark, but the daimio h the blackness the girl at his side felt with stealthy fingers at the man's belt

At last Oda Yori chamber

"Here!" he said, and took her by the shoulders

"Here!" answered the girl in a low, tense voice, and at the instant that she spoke Oda Yori at his belt, and before he guessed as to happen his own short sword had pierced his breast

A single shriek broke froh and shrill and like the shriek of a woman in mortal terror that the woman in the next room who heard it but smiled a crooked, wicked smile of hate and turned once ain Barbara Harding plunged the sword of the brown man into the still heart, until she knew beyond peradventure of a doubt that her enemy was forevermore powerless to injure her Then she sank, exhausted and tre, upon the dirt floor beside the corpse

When Theriere caone he jumped to the natural conclusion that Ward and Simms had discovered the ruse that he had worked upon them just in tiirl, and carry her back to the h the rumbled that "it listened fishy" However, all hands returned cautiously down the face of the cliff, expecting uards which they felt sure Ward would post in expectation of a return of the irl had been taken from them; but to the surprise of all they reached the cove without molestation, and when they had crept cautiously to the vicinity of the sleepers they discovered that all were there, in peaceful slumber, just as they had left them a few hours before