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Then a coiven and the column came forward at the double He fired two shots, but the advance continued They passed the ray of light and he saw the whites of their eyes and the gleam of teeth and steel They paused a second to fire a volley, and a storm of shot rattled about him He had stepped back into his shelter, and was unscathed, but when he looked out he saw the enemy at the foot of the slope His weapons were all loaded except the express, and in mad haste he sent shot after shot into the ranks The fire halted thee of a panic This unknown destruction co to the stoutest hearts All the while there rath behind the the whole force into confusion Angry es came up frouides

Meanwhile Leas so wholly unlike himself, ain the glory of the fight He husbanded the chances of his life with generous parsimony Every chance meant some minutes' delay and every delay a new link of safety for the north His cartridges were getting near an end, but there still remained the stones and his pistol and the power of his arm hand to hand

Suddenly ca on all sides of hie of death Then on the heels of it cae up the slope The turn had come for the last expedient He rushed to the stone and with the strength of madness rooted it from its foundations It wavered for a second, and then with a cloud of earth and gravel it plunged doards A second and it had ploughed its ith a sickening grinding sound into the ranks of the men below There was one wild screaht, almost a panic

Down in the holloas a babel of sound,the of the forces behind For Lewis the lastThe neck of the pass was now bare and wide and half of the slope was gone He had lost his weapons in the fall, all but his express, and the loosening of the stone had crushed his foot so that he could scarcely stand Then order see out, which passed over his head as he crouched on the ground The ene slowly, resolutely He knew that now there was so different in their tread