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Her voice shook; she turned her head aside The cold her impulse A sense of vast relief was on him He would have taken her into his ariveness, but for an unlooked-for interruption There was a sound in the distance It was the steady beat of horses' hoofs on the hard clay road in the direction of Ridgeville

"It is the revenuehis hand as ie of boxwood "Crouch do!" she cried "We must not let them see us They would think--"

She failed to finish Seated on the dewy grass, side by side, they strained their ears for further sounds of the approaching horsemen Mostyn marveled over her undaunted calmness She still held his hand as if unconscious of what she was doing, and he noted that there was only a slight treruff voice in command was distinctly heard

"We'll dis the whole bunch If they resist, boys, don't hesitate to fire This gang has bothered us long enough I'ht, Cap!" a voice returned "We'll ht this time I know the spot"

A dozen horse a hovering cloud of dust in their wake Moving swiftly, and paler and graver, Dolly stood up, her steady gaze on the departing men

"Did you hear that?" she said, dejectedly "He ordered his men to--to fire Who knows? Perhaps before daybreak I shall have no--" She checked herself, her small hand at her throat "I shall have no father, and with all his faults I love hi Some of the most respectable persons--even ministers--wink at it, if they don't actually take part My father, like many others, has an idea that the Government robbed the Southern people of all they had, and they look on the law against whisky-hts I wish my father would obey the law, but he doesn't, and now this has come He ive way," Mostyn said, full of syet that Barnett has had time, perhaps, to warn them, and they may escape"