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"They're having a po All talking with their hands, the way greasers do Go to it, boys A regular debating society, ain't you?"

"Hello! What's that mean?" broke in Gordon

One of the Mexicans had left the rest, and was running toward the Corbett house

"Gone to find whether we're on the porch with the fa his own question

"What's theto stay right here You can go if you like, Steve?"

"Oh, well I just suggested it" Davis helped hi back from the house already," he presently added

"Got the wrong address again They'll be happening on the right one pretty soon"

"Soon as they're amply satisfied we ain't under the beds, or hid between the covers of soazines Blaave a sudden exclamation of dise with a tin box in his hand

"I'm the blamedest idiot out of an asylum," he cried bitterly "All the proofs of ht it back from Santa Fé with me"

"Ain't that too bad?"

Gordon rose, the lines of hisdown after it If I lose those papers, the whole ga to"

"Don't be a goat How can you take it from a whole company of them?"

"I'll watch my chance It ain"

"I', too, then"

"See here, Steve Be sensible If we both go down, it's a sure thing they will stu up after us"

"So much the better We'll cut across to the left, slip down, and take theht Whatever you say, Dick"

They slipped away into the see of every bit of cover they could find Not until they were a long stone's throw froin the descent

Occasionally they could hear voices over to the right as they silently slipped down It was no easy thing to negotiate that stiff mountainside in the darkness, where a slip would have sent one of the down into the sharp rock-slide beneath Presently they came to a rockrim, a sheer descent of twenty-five feet down the perpendicular face of a cliff