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"Pull in now," she whispered tensely, and, with a little further

effort, they found that the boat was traveling not against but with the

tide, which was flooding a small offshoot of the main estuary

Precaution became not only useless but i but the most inflexible determination on the part of

Elsie and Gray, eked out by a certain desponding fear of both of them

felt by Suarez, had sustained them thus far They went on, and on;

they swept rapidly into the jaws of a precipitous defile, the lofty

crests on either hand co

sky It did not seeantic hill could continue forsave a bird could find foothold on its steep sides Yet the

current flowed s precariously to every ledge and natural escarped to erowl Then the boat crashed into a canoe, and a hoarse yell of alare flung a pall

over the water Gray was seized with an inspiration He grasped the

canoe as it buunwale, and held it down on one side

until it filled and sank He sent another, and yet a third, guzzling

to the bottom before the outburst of raucous cries from both banks

showed there were Indians here in soan to hureater number whizzed unpleasantly close to the heads of the twoconclusively that they were visible to the unseen

enemy Gray whipped forth the revolver and fired twice The second