The Prairie Detective: Secret Service Series No. 24 — page 123: what you’re looking at

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THE PRAIRIE DETECTIVE. - 121 ' some time, but she felt repaid.when she found her- self once more on a strange road to the northward. © About this time, too, she began to be assailed by the qualms of hunger. Fortunately, Robinson had, in parting, given her all that was left of the jerked venison, and this she lunched upon as she walked along. | At different points in her journey she recognized landmarks described to her by Robinson, and was thus enabled to assure herself that she was on the right road. She struggled bravely ahead, although deeply fatigued by the trying events of the past twenty- four hours. And it was at this time that a new ele- ment presented itself against her. Darkness was coming on, and rapidly. What should she do in such a predicament? Traveling over a country that was entirely un- known to her, excepting through the description of a second person, how could she expect to find her way? True, she could determine pretty accurately the distance she had traveled by the time occupied; but by what means could she be sure that she did not vary to the right nor to the left? But she was one of those determined persons who, whether for right or wrong, make up their minds quickly and then go ahead; and she lost not an in- stant in bringing herself to the conclusion that the best course was to push right forward and take the chances of going so near the camp occupied by Ryan and his partner that they might hear and hail her. Therefore, having made up her mind to that, she passed on without hesitation. In about an hour she felt satisfied that she had traveled pretty nearly the . (ele) comicbooks