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"We'll et past the sentry"

"What sentry?" asked Billy "I didn't see no sentry when I coht," replied the girl "In the daytie--on the top of this bluff, for froht they station hihty good thing you tipped ht they was all behind us now"

After that they went more cautiously, and when they reached the part of the trail where the sentry ht be expected to be found, Barbara warned Billy of the fact Like two thieves they crept along in the shadow of the canyon wall Inwardly Billy cursed the darkness of the night which hid fro more than a few paces from them; yet it may have been this very darkness which saved them, since it hid them as effectually from an enemy as it hid the enemy from them They had reached the point where Barbara was positive the sentry should be The girl was clinging tightly to Billy's left arers as they sunk into his iant frame Even in the face of death Billy Byrne could sense the ecstasies of personal contact with this girl--the only woman he ever had loved or ever would

And then a black shadow loomed before then of warning