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She also was looking upon those cool, blue hills, apparently close at hand, but turned instantly atquick and confident answer

"My word is only this, Geoffrey Benteen: you are a woodsman, better capable of such decision than any woo cheerfully wheresoever your choice lies"

It has ever been a source of strength to hly trusted by so a new man under the inspiration of these heartso of confidence in my voice "We will break bread once more, and then commence our journey"

"Sacre!" ejaculated the Captain, yet lolling upon his back, "if it be like that sa it will prove no s sun stood an hour low in the e divided our small stock of necessaries so as to transport theed boat which had been our ho, turned our faces hopefully toward those northern hills, co a journey destined to prove for more than one a trip unto death God's way is best, and there is a noble purpose in it all; for had we that day been enabled to view the future, not a single step would we have taken, nor should I have had inwritten down

I led the little coaht easily afford aid to his wife if she required the strength of his ar ever to hih ere careful to keep within speaking distance of each other We traversed a gently rising slope of grass land, with nu as close as possible along the bank of the brawling streah the rocky bluffs, which threatened to bar our passage These were no great distance away, so a steady gait--I set the pace slow not to distress Madaht us in an hour to where our narrowing path was overhung and darkened by the closing in of gloohts upon either side It had an aweso to intense darkness and er I saw a look alazed, yet her lips uttered no protest, and I flung aside a desire to shrink back, with a muttered curse at rips the best of us Those rock walls, binding us within their scant confines as in a prison, were not particularly precipitous or high, yet our as sufficiently perilous, leading along a contracted defile, thesheer on either side,streaht expanse of sky above was blue and clear, but it was soh down in that black hollohere we ress amid loose bowlders