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Jack saw to it that he and Joyce followed the others down the trail at a very leisurely pace The early night of the Rockies was already cutting them off from the rest of the world Captain Kil every minute more tenuous India and her escort were already lost in the descending darkness

It was the first time that the Goldbanks miner had ever been alone with Miss Seldon Heits way through his alert, masterful eyes into the blood of the man Where else under heaven could a woance for hair, with such exquisitely turned scarlet lips in so fine-textured colorless a skin of satin? She raceful lines of her li into new curves at every step Sinuous and supple, she was exquisitely feer tips

They talked little, and that irrelevantly In both of them the tide of enet of sex attraction When their eyes htful, ran like a golden thread through the excitement which burned their blood

"We

"Why must we?" he deetting ahead of us"

"Let theave her his hand to help her down a steep place in the trail Their fingers laced, pal to palm

"Youmustn't," she protested

"Mustn't I?"

"No-o"

The note of faintness was in her voice Courage flooded him in triumphant waves A ainst his She lay still for an instant, pulses throbbing wildly But when his lips found hers the woman in her awoke In an ecstasy of tenderness her ar to him A distant sea surf roared in her ears For the first time in her life passion had drowned coquetry

They spoke in kisses, in caresses, in little s, as lovers will till the end of ti sweet and turbulent swelled in her bosom, an emotion new and inexplicable For the first time in many experiences of the sex duel she was afraid of herself, of the strength of this ied herself from his embrace and stood back

Beneath the quick probe of his eyes a faint tre lashes fell to the hot cheeks and curtained laht