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Twilight fell and darkness caht showed anywhere in the blackness

"Wal, I reckon it's aboot time," said Blue, and he led the way out of the cabin to the back of the lot Jean strode behind hi his rifle and an ax Silently the other h the field until he caht of a dark line of trees

"Thet's where the road turns off," he said to Jean "An' heah's the back of Colerip of a steel-like hand, and in the darkness he caught the gleam of Blue's eyes Jean had no response in words for the laconic Blue, but he wrung the hard, thin hand and hurried away in the darkness

Once alone, his part of the business at hand rushed hi action This was the sort of work he was fitted to do In this instance it was important, but it seemed to him that Blue had coolly taken the perilous part And this coith gray in his thin hair was in reality the great King Fisher! Jean marveled at the fact And he shivered all over for Jorth In tenbloody froth and sinking down Soht told Jean this He strode on swiftly Crossing the road at a run, he kept on over the ground he had traversed during the afternoon, and in a few e of the coht penetrated the blackness Itthe big la in the center of Greaves's store Jean listened Loud voices and coarse laughter sounded discord on the ht What Blue had called his instinct had surely guided hi celebrated by revel

In a few ained his breath Then all his faculties set intensely to the action at hand He seeht His on, where he crouched a round seelooht, which looked thick like a cloud, but was really clear, shone the thin, bright point of light, accentuating the black square that was Greaves's store Above this stood a gray line of tree foliage, and then the intensely dark-blue sky studded hite, cold stars