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Byrne turned She was shocked at the pallor of his haggard face

"Good ," he said "How did yeh sleep?"

"Oh, just splendidly, and you?" she replied

"So-so," he answered

She looked at hily as he approached her

"Why I don't believe that you have slept at all," she cried

"I didn't feel very sleepy," he replied evasively

"You sat up all night on guard!" she exclaiht o' been shadowin' us--it wasn't safe to sleep," he admitted; "but I'll tear off a few dis mornin' after we find a feed of some kind"

"What can we find to eat here?" she asked

"Dis crick is full o' fish," he explained, "an' ef youse got a pin I guess we kin rig up a scheirl found a pin that he said would answer very nicely, and with a shoe lace for a line and a big locust as bait the le in the little ry thus early in the ht forth two splendid specimens

"I could eat a dozen of deain, until in twenty rass beside him

With his pocketknife he cleaned and scaled the sticks through the bodies of his catch roasted them all They had neither salt, nor pepper, nor butter, nor any other viand than the fish, but it seeirl that never in her life had she tasted so palatable afish filled her nostrils that no food had passed her lips since the second day before--no wonder that the two ate ravenously, enjoying every mouthful of their repast

"An' now," said Billy Byrne, "I tink I'll poun' my ear fer a few You kin keep yer lamps peeled fer de Chinks, an' de first fony noise youse hears, w'y be sure to wake rass, asleep alirl, to while away the time, explored their rock-bound haven She found that it had but a single h which the brook found outlet Beyond the entrance she did not venture, but through it she saw, beneath, a wooded slope, and twice deer passed quite close to her, stopping at the brook to drink