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"Maybe you'd better coested Billy

"No, I should be in the way--you can't hunt deer with a gallery, and get any"

"Well, I'll stay within hailing distance, and you can look for me back any time between now and sundown Good-bye," and he picked his way down the bank into the river, while from behind a bush upon the mainland ticked, black eyes watched his irl on the shore behind hihtly upon a heavy war spear, and steeland the swift throw

The girl watched Billy Byrne forging his way through the swift rapids What a th and endurance he was! What afound herself ad the very brutality that once had been repellent to her She saw hihtly to the opposite bank, and then she saw a quick movement in a bush close at his side She did not knohathad caused it, but her intuition warned her that behind that concealing screen lay er to the unconsciousfrom her lips involuntarily "In the bush at your left--look out!"

At the note of warning in her voice Byrne had turned at her first word--it was all that saved his life He saw the half-naked savage and the out-shooting spear arht-for-the-head in the squared circle of his other days, he ducked now, side stepping to the right, and the heavy weapon sped hare, drew his sharp parang, leaping to close quarters Barbara Harding saw Byrne whip Theriere's revolver froe; but to her horror the cartridge failed to explode, and before he could fire again the warrior was upon hiirl saw the white man leap to one side to escape the furious cut aiility of a panther and spring to close quarters with the wild man Byrne's left arht fist he rained blow after blow upon the brown face

The savage dropped his useless parang--clawing and biting at the hty creature in whose power he found himself; but never once did those terrific, relentless blows cease to fall upon his unprotected face