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82 ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAM. balloon, faithful to the last, though ripped and torn in many places, bounded aloft, and the car was borne out of immediate danger, giving Sam an opportunity to drag in the magnet and take a hurried inventory of the numerous weapons it had captured. | They were, however, sweeping along so close to the ground as to be in immediate danger of being dashed. to pieces against the rocks and trees, and the professor had so far recovered from his exhaustion as to stoop down and begin to heave out more ballast, when a wild shriek from below caused them all to spring to the side of the car again. The shriek had been given by Miss Chapman, who had found her way out of the ravine into which she had been thrust out of harm’s way by her captor, and who now stood with her fair hair blowing out. in the wind, grief and sup- plication written painfully upon every lineament of her lovely face, and her arms raised appealingly toward them. ‘Do not desert me! Save me! save me! Oh, my friends, rescue me!” she cried in piteous accents. The professor hesitated. ; “The gas-bae’s too much disabled,” he faltered. ‘‘We can’t make another descent, and then get off the ground again.” “By , well try, though!” cried Sam, with an oath, and at the same time jerking the valve, while little Fay- away leaned over the side, and cheered her mistress by ten- der cries and gestures. ) But as the balloon neared the earth once more, Firefoot, with several of his band could be seen spurring toward the scene. ; | ‘“Now, lady, give me your hand, and jump all you know how!” cried the professor, leaning over and catching the Prairie Blossom by the hand, while Fayaway screamed with delight and began to heave out ballast. - Miss Chapman leaped from the ground, and seized the car with her other hand. She was swinging clear of the seround, almost beyond the reach of her captors, with her white robe fluttering in the wind, when the renegade rode up in breathless haste, and succeeded im grasping her flow- ing skirts, while two of his followers also leaped from their saddles, and grasped the car to detain it. ‘Hang on to the lady, prefessor!” bawled Sam; ‘‘I’ll take eare of these chaps.” agi comicbooks CO! - 8, ae mar) Ter