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Rhoda wrung her hands and groaned Only to escape--to escape! Suddenly turning, she ran down the track Kut-le watched her, motionless, until she had run perhaps a hundred yards, then with a few reat chest Moaning, Rhoda lay still
"Dear," said Kut-le, "don't exert yourself foolishly If you must escape, lay your plans carefully Use your brain Don't act like a child I love you, Rhoda!"
"I loathe you! I loathe you!" whispered the girl
"You don't--ah--" He stopped abruptly and set the girl on the ground They were standing beside a side-track near a desert water-tank "I've caughthis hold on Rhoda with one hand while with the other he tugged at his id
"I hear a train!" she cried "O dear God, I hear a train!" Then, "The other Indians are too far away to reach you before the train does," she added calrip on you," returned the Indian gri theFar down the track they saw a star of light Rhoda's heart stood still This, then, was to be the end! After all the months of distant menace, death was to be upon her in a moment! This, then, was to be the solution! And with all the horror of what life ht mean to her, she cried out with a sob: "Oh, not this way! Not this way!"
Kut-le gave her a quick push
"Hurry," he said, "and try to res of me!"
With a cry of joy, Rhoda jumped from the track, then stopped There flashed across her inner vision the face of young Cartwell, debonair and dark, with unfatho Cartho had saved her life when the scorpion had stung her, who had spent hours trying to lead her back to health Instantly she turned and staggered back to the Indian
"I can't let a hu die like a trapped aniainst hiht and his foot was freed! He lifted Rhoda, leaped from the track, and the second section of the tourist train thundered into the west
"You are as fine as I thought you were--" he began But Rhoda was a liirl came to her senses partially when Kut-le set her in the saddle and fastened her there with strap and blanket But happily she was practically unconscious for the hour or two that re the Indians roup of cottonwoods Here Rhoda was put to bed on a heap of blankets