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"True, friend," I admitted as he paused for breath, amused to behold a man thus played upon "If it is a comfort to you, we all confess it was your voice which put an end to the dancing Yet if there is a time for prayer, so there is time also for action, and the latter htfall, we shall meet it no less bravely if we first have food So let us break our fast, and depart from this accursed spot"

It was not a cheerful h tension, and we partookof enjoyment I must except the old Puritan, however, ould have eaten, I believe, had that sa at his elbow Many anxious looks were cast upward at the rock crest, every unwonted sound causing us to start and glance about in nervous terror It see us, and I have felt sincerely asha nervousness before that company Yet had she been in safety I would have provensuperstition reuered by flesh and blood, not by demons of the air, and had never counted n But to be compelled to look into her fair face, to feel constantly the trustful gaze of her brown eyes, knohat would be her certain fate should she fall into savage hands, operated in breaking down all thehtest sound De Noyan barely touched the food placed in front of hi before Cairnes had co the rocks beside the strealances in our direction

"Mon Dieu!" he ejaculated at last, "it is not the nature of a French you, Benteen, bid that gluttonous English aniet away; eachthe saht, and, undisturbed by sight or sound, we began a slow advance, cla the narroay, discovering as wecliffs on either side were beco them became apparent We travelled thus upwards of a quarter of anecessarily slohen a dull roar stole gradually upon our hearing Arock, and picking our way cautiously along a narrow slab of stone extending out above the swirling water, we came forth in full view of a vast cliff, with unbroken front extending froed the streanificent leap of fully one hundred and fifty feet It was a scene of rare, roup like a gauzy veil between us and the colureenish-blue water Yet it pleased us little then, for it barred our progress northward as completely as would a hostile army