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"We know from those blood-ether again, but he went on without stopping further:

"Let us arrange the battleThough we are but little distance fromthem as the crow flies, the way is far to travelThere is, I cansee, but one path down to the valley froone by, and that they will sure to guard--to watch, at any rateLet us divide, as to surround themThe cliff towards which theyht wecannot see froround it isnot unlikely that it turns round in this direction,the hitherend of the valley like a vast pocket or around in other places, they may have done so in this,and have coeLet one man, a marksman,stay here"

As he spoke a man stepped to the frontHe was, I knew, an excellentshot

"Let two others go to the left and try to find a way down the cliffbefore usWhen they have descended to the level of the valley--pathor no path--let theuns in readinessBut they must not fire till needRe to those who stepped out a pace or two tothe left, "that the first shot gives the warning which will be thesignal for the Voivodin's deathThese e yourselves of the tiht and try to find a path on that sideIf the valleybe indeed a pocket between the cliffs, we must find a way down thatis not a path!"

As he spoke thus there was a blaze in his eyes that betokened no goodto aught that ht stand in his wayI ran by his side as we ht

It was as he surot a little on ourhow the rocky forht, till,finally, with a wide curve, it came round to the other side

It was a fearful valley that, with its narrow girth and its toweringwalls that seereat trees that clothed the slope of the e of the rock, so that their spreading branches hungfar over the chasmAnd, so far as we could understand, the samecondition existed on our own sideBelow us the valley was dark evenin the daylightWe could best tell themarauders by the flashes of the white shroud of their captive in themidst of them

Froreat tree-trunks on the verybrow of the cliff, we could, when our eyes were accustoreat haste, and half dragging, halfcarrying the Voivodin, they crossed the open space and took refuge ina little grassy alcove surrounded, save for its tortuous entrance, byundergrowthFrom the valley level it was h we frorowthWhen within the glade, they took their hands fro instinctively, withdrew to a remote corner of thedell

And then, oh, shah theywere--we could see that they had sub her hands!

Our Voivodin Teuta bound!To one and all of us it was like lashingus across the faceI heard the Gospodar's teeth grind againButonce more he schooled himself to calmness ere he said:

"It is, perhaps, as well, great though the indignity beThey areseeking

their own doo quicklyMoreover, theyare thwarting their own base plansNow that she is bound they willtrust to their binding, so that they will delay their murderousalternative to the very lasther alive!"

For a fewso in his ried to the top ofthe trees above cliff, and down again, very slowly this ti the detail of as in front of himThen he spoke:

"They are in hopes that the other pursuing partyIf those others do not comeup the valley, they will proceed on their wayThey will return upthe path the way they cae into themiddle of them when she is opposite, and cut down those around herThen the others will open fire, and we shall be rid of them!

Whilst he was speaking, two of the ood sharpshooters, and who had just before lain on their faces andhad steadied their rifles to shoot, rose to their feet