The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-07-25
A Romance
By Zane Grey
Copyright by Harper and Brothers

to wait developments. There came d
slight rafting of stones in the rear.
She turned to see Helen sliding down
a bank with a perplexed and troubled
cowboy. Ambrose sternly and hero
ically prepared to carry her back to
the others. He laid hold of her. In n
fury with eyes blazing, Helen whis-
pered:
LET go of mel Majesty, what does
this fool mean3'
Madeline laughed. She knew Helen,
and had marked the whisper, when or
dinarily Helen would have spoken i'm
%periously, and not low. Madeline ex-
planned TO her the exigency of the sit
uation. 81 might run, but I'll never
scream" said Helen. With that Am
brose had to be content to let her stay.
However, he found her a place some
what farther back from Madeline's po-
sition, where he said there was less
danger of her being seen. Then he
sternly bound her to silence, tarried a
moment to comfort Christine, his wife,
acting as maid to the ladies, and re-
turned to where Madeline lay con-
cealed. He had been there scarcely a
moment when he whispered
II hear bosses. The guerrillas are
comm"
Madeline's hiding place was well
protected from possible discovery from
below. She could peep ever n kind of
parapet, through an opening Inc the
tips Of the pines that reached up to
the cliff, and obtain a commanding view
of the camp circle and its immediate
surroundings. She could not, however.
see far either to right or left of the
camp, owing to the %obstructing foliage.
Presently the sound of horses hoofs
quickened the beat of her pulse and
caused her to turn keener gaze upon
the cowboys below.
Although she had some inkling of
the course Stewart and his men were
TO pursue, she was not by any means
preparation the Indifference she saw.
Frank was asleep, Or pretended to be.
Three cowboys were lazily and uncon-
cernedly attending to campfire duties,
such as baking biscuits, watching the
ovens, and washing tins and pots. The
elaborate set of aluminium plates, cups,
etc., together with the other camp hx-
lures that mad done service for Made
lines party, had disappeared. Nick
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