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"Jack Mount!" I called, "where are the women? Are they safe?"

He looked around ath the slit in the logs

I crawled up to the epaulment and peered down into the dusty street It was choked with the eneons, now thrown into terrible confusion by the shot fro around, and broke into a terrified gallop; teamsters swore and lashed at theira dead or wounded tea the horses' bits, urged theer's whistle, set it to !"

"Let therily at Mount "Have you no better work than to waste powder on a parcel of frightened clodhoppers? Send those militiamen to their posts! Two to a loop, yonder! Lively, lads; and see that you fire at nothing except Indians and soldiers Jack, co rifleman mounted the ladder and leaped to the rifle-platforht I'd best sting them once," he muttered "Their main force has circled the toard toward the Hall Lord, sir, it was a bad surprise they gave us, for we understood that Willett held therip of iron, striving to speak, shaking him to silence

"Where--where is Miss Grey?" I said hoarsely "You say the women are safe, do you not?"

"Mr Renault--sir--" he stammered, "I have just arrived at the jail--I have not seen your wife"

My hand fell froht, sir," hethe fla the Valley I saw her there in a crowd of townsfolk, women, children--the whole toas on the lawn there----"

He wiped his clammy face and moistened his lips; above us, in the wooden tower, the cla for news of you I--I had no news of you to tell her Then an officer--Captain Little--fell a-bawling for the Rangers to fall in, and Billy Laird, Jack Shew, Sao So I fell in, sir; and the last I saw she was standing there and looking at the reddening sky----"

Blindly, al down the ladder, across the yard, and into the lower corridor of the jail There o news; so for husband or son I looked blankly into face after face, all strangers; I , searching every ashed corridor, every roohtened children huddled, then out again, breaking into a run, hastening from blockhouse to blockhouse, the iron voice of the bellme!