26/40 As he stared the two figures shaped themselves into two Mexican officers. They had seen him escaping and they would come for him! He pressed his body hard against the stone wall, and with his hands resting upon one of the knots clung desperately to the rope. He was hanging in an alley, and the men were on the street at the mouth of it six or seven yards away. They were talking and it must be about him! He saw them create a light in some manner, and his hands almost slipped from the rope. |