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"Jim, you saved ed Fellars, search Riggs an' we'll divvy Thet all right, Jim?"

"Shore, an' you can have my share"

They found bank-notes in the old worn in a money-belt around his waist Shady Jones appropriated his boots, and Moze his gun Then they left him as he had fallen

"Jim, you'll have to track them lost hosses Two still missin' an' one of them's mine," called Anson as Wilson paced to the end of his beat

The girl heard Anson, for she put her head out of the spruce shelter and called: "Riggs said he'd hid two of the horses They ood news," replied Anson His spirits were rising "He o"

"An' then he hit you?"

"Yes"

"Wal, recallin' your talk of yestiddy, I can't see as Mister Riggs lasted er hyar than he'd hev lasted in Texas We've soirl withdrew her white face

"It's break camp, boys," was the leader's order "A couple of you look up them hosses They'll be hid in so was on thefroround that would not leave any tracks

They did not travelthe afternoon, but they climbed bench after bench until they reached the timbered plateau that stretched in sheer black slope up to the peaks Here rose the great and gloomy forest of firs and pines, with the spruce overshadowed and thinned out The last hour of travel was tedious and toilso hunt for the kind of ca strangely irrational about selecting places to camp At last, for no reason that could have been loomy bowl in the center of the densest forest that had been traversed The opening, if such it could have been called, was not a park or even a glade A dark cliff, with strange holes, rose to one side, but not so high as the lofty pines that brushed it Along its base babbled a brook, running over such forave forth different sounds, so, others melodious, and one at least of a holloeird, deep sound, not loud, but strangely penetrating