The Crime of the Trenches: or, Clif Faraday's Last Cartridge — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Py minutes time. 3 fore him he could not tell. “Xt @ 1 . . axy 1)? - ‘ 4 urr AN Before two more had passed footsteps ‘Housed, and I sept Se ae and voices approached. murmured Clif, surveyiug ar Di friend!’? chuckled critically. eae ae ca pags a ce és For some tine he lingered, studying it, | : le Clif through the chinks of his basket oping to see some light or hear-some_ adark corner of the place where they gi COS +4 into the directing noise. + 4 ilibhinad eed ee at He All was dark and silent, pee: pd - 1] ‘Wake Bi up when we reach Mana,’”’ Clif, stealing across the yard, galne the . he observed, half in earnest gate, then the arch, and finally the street. : ; A front view of the place indicated @ . ‘You may readily repose,’’ insisted r] ; aWUe ds Vizel. ‘‘I have weighted the other that it was some kind of an abandoned © basket, so the jolting will not be so business house, for its steps were gone, troublesoie. Forward! We are started.’’ several of its windows boarded across. : Clif congratulated himself on the rare Nearly opposite, a high chureh ae 4 good fortune and promise of his new ture cast a dense shadow agains ot t environmeit. half-riseu moon. Clif crossed over. This edifice, too, — looked considerably the worse for weer and then he began to discern that durin a fight between the Spaniards and Ameri. arrive directly at some secret hiding-place ‘S&S Neat the vilaee a Week previous; 4 of the plotter, Parr, and his fellow plot- the artillery had played particular havoc ter, includng Bruce in this particular street. : : aye By Clif stumbled over a broken walk, RA eet toda Beatie Paap glided up the broken steps of the church, P It proved to ie Aastt a ee ace y The aud, seating himself, fixed his eye again} , . mule plodded steadily, and inside of four a Pape bop ak Sa around hours, without halt or hindrance, arrived Mie ES SERIE Be tick breathine b hit at its destination. anid cin picket eae Clif heard the muleteer knock on the sa ‘ eg sgt ae ert in a flash. basket concealing the renegade. \ 44 Form was advancing, and Clif backed “We are at our journey’s end,’’ he oe were ‘ hs challenge: 3. announced, | 10 1S tis ‘rt ¢ . . . H k < is} here was a direction in reply, and the €~Spoke in Spanish, but “the reply ; came in cheery, conventional] i autinal turned from the street it was in in tones of Seki Rae English, and under a stone archway. “OT | np a - . .1 ° ) ; As it proceeded thence into a yard and iow that voice; if it isn’t Clif There was not the least doubt but that he would be undisturbed until they reached Mana. © To reach Mana, presumably ineant to ’ 7 >) through a gate into a shed, Clif could varaday.! . only dimly inake out their surroundings, jae ad __ He felt the basket he was in sag and ~ CHAPTER X. drop a few inches as Parr evidently got 25) enbrat thew theronc: a 3 THE MASCOT OF THE UNCAS. hen cane a tumble as Vizel] released Clif Faraday instantly thought of Wines the girth, letting it and its load drop un- Rolli heeded to the floor. Rare ollins; but tl He led the mule away. Clif had nearly “Don? | . 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