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Here he spent a panting aps between the bluffs Nothing stirred except the gentle wave of the tips of the brush Then he pressed on past the round new to him, now close under the eastern wall This latter part proved to be easy traveling, well screened from possible observation from the north and west, and he soon covered it and felt safer in the deepening shade of his own canyon Then the huge, notched bulge of red riain the deep cove where his caain for the present, his thoughts reverted to the girl he had left there The afternoon had far advanced Hoould he find her? He ran into cairl lay ide-open, dark eyes, and they dilated when he knelt beside her The flush of fever shone in her cheeks He lifted her and held water to her dry lips, and felt an inexplicable sense of lightness as he saw her s in a slow, choking gulp Gently he laid her back

"Who--are--you?" she whispered, haltingly

"I'm the man who shot you," he replied

"You'll--not--kill me--now?"

"No, no"

"What--will--you--do--with h--I'll take you back to the canyon where the rustlers ride through the waterfall"

As with a faint shadow fro overhead, the e

"Don't--take--me--back--there!"