When she left to-day, I started an hour ahead of her, and hid myself at the edge of the woods.

An hour after the coach arrived at Indian Spring, she came there in a brown duster and was joined by him.

I'd have followed them, but the d--d hound has the ears of a squirrel, and though I was five hundred yards from him he was on his guard." "Guard be blessed! Wasn't you armed?
Why didn't you go for him ?" said Dunn, furiously.
"I reckoned I'd leave that for you," said Brace coolly.

"If he'd killed me, and if he'd even covered me with his rifle, he'd been sure to let daylight through me at double the distance.

I shouldn't have been any better off, nor you either.