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How strange to hear this bandit warn her of peril the like of which

she had encountered through hiun and hid it in

a niche between the logs Then she looked out again

The riders were close at hand now The foremost one, a man of

Herculean build, jumped his mount across the brook, and leaped off

while he hauled the horse to a stop The second rider came close

behind hiait of the

pack-ani

"Reckon he's here somewheres," said the other oin' to be far from thet hoss"

Then both of them approached the cabin Joan had never before seen

two such striking, vicious-looking, awesoe--

so wide and heavy and deep-set that he looked short--and he

reseorilla The other was tall, slim, with a face as red as

flame, and an expression of fierce keenness He was stoop

shouldered, yet he held his head erect in ablood

"So irl!"

Joan moved out of the shadow of the wall of the cabin, and she

pointed to the prostrate figure on the blankets