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Riders of the Purple Sage

CHAPTER IV
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An old grass-grown trail followed the course of a shallow wash where flowed a thin stream of water.

The canyon was a hundred rods wide, its yellow walls were perpendicular; it had abundant sage and a scant growth of oak and pinon.

For five miles it held to a comparatively straight bearing, and then began a heightening of rugged walls and a deepening of the floor.

Beyond this point of sudden change in the character of the canyon Venters had never explored, and here was the real door to the intricacies of Deception Pass.
He reined Wrangle to a walk, halted now and then to listen, and then proceeded cautiously with shifting and alert gaze.

The canyon assumed proportions that dwarfed those of its first ten miles.


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