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Through the balance of the day and all during the long night Billy Byrne swung along his lonely way, retracing the fa and himself to the little island in the turbulent river

Just before dawn he ca of the late Oda Yorie he was sure that the two prisoners lay

During the long ain all that the success of his rash venture would ht conceivably stand between hied that she loved him--these two men were the most to be feared

Billy Byrne did not for awould look with favor upon the Grand Avenue mucker as a prospective son-in-law And then there was Mallory! He was sure that Barbara had loved this rave there seemed little doubt but that the old love would be aroused in the girl's breast The truth of the matter was that Billy Byrne could not conceive the truth of the testimony of his own ears--even now he scarce dared believe that the wonderful Miss Harding loved him--him, the despised irl, and the genuineness of his new-found character were proven beyond question by the relentless severity hich he put away every thought of himself and the consequences to him in the an What though the results sent hie death, or to a life of lonely misery, or to the arms of his beloved! In the face of duty the result was all the sa at the n of wakefulness or life, then with all the stealth of an Indian, and with the trained wariness of the thief that he had been, theto the shadows of the nearest hut

He listened beneath thethrough which he and Barbara and Theriere had made their escape a feeeks before There was no sound from within Cautiously he raised himself to the sill, and a moment later dropped into the inky darkness of the interior

With groping hands he felt about the room--it was unoccupied Then he passed to the door at the far end Cautiously he opened it until a narrow crack gave hihted chamber beyond Within all seemed asleep The mucker pushed the door still further open and stepped within--so e until he had found those he sought?