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The knowledge nerved le, but ere I could ridand snarling like a pack of hounds who had overtaken their quarry It would have been over in another rind of a stone knife-point at rip on the fellorist, when suddenly, sounding clear as a bell above that hellish uproar, a single voice uttered an imperative command

Instantly each Indian's face was upturned tohere such unexpected suazed across the narrow valley, to the summit of the cliff on the farther side There, solitary, a carven statue full in the glow of the westering sun, turning her gar her rich profusion of hair into radiant beauty, stood a young woure It was no ti white robe, draped fro away fro down upon us There was a suggestion of despotic power in both face and posture, and the ring of stern authority spoke in the sound of her voice

Twice she addressed our savage captors in brief sentences strange to esture up the valley A htly forward, perold of her hair to flash and shimmer in the sunshine; then she stepped swiftly back fro instantly, as if dissolved in the haze