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120° osite direction from that by 7 ich he came. Cornelius waited a moment, then oe off the piece of wood, put his hand through; raised the bar, slid the bolts, and with his two pistols in bh belt, his lantern in one hand, and crowbar slung on his right the darted darted out into the pas- *~ in time 2 to catch a glimpse Ralph “disappearing up a po at Re steps about thirty feet Oorney Ragg, determined to iemieees the mysteries of the place, followed without hesitation. e had lost t of the rutfian- proprietor of the Frog’s Hole, who seemed to have ~3 ved the natu- ral wee tata é locality to a d would have been sur- pr , had not his! residence there 0 part explained But of this Caen ey Rage did not think. All he cared for was to find out what the ex-highwayman was He trod cautiously along the unt he came to a flight Peatepe. orrather a ladder of wood, pe a the side of the rock, and which a tly led ‘to another fissure about ten feet above. Cor- ney Ragg began to ascend the Pb. om with extreme caa- tion, found himself, ina few pr gocieneh at the a type of a kind of h which there 3 oe See de Corney pushed a: d soon ma eat tight his an ofa glimmering lighta the cat-like .as caution of a house-breaker, and in was tro aoe i a indider which Beside per- sad up the side of the wali this Cornelius to tie doo poate Bae quick Ra oa self Be close to si fer a His b. towurd him, ad betwen ye ‘the floor, mo took in THE SILENT HUNTER. overahole. Then Cornelius saw him draw a small bag from his Hm ket, whieh, from the sound, he cnew to be money, and throw it down upon other money, after which he dropped a stone over the hole and to rise. Cornelius gave him no time to catch him, but turned back, and reached his room as rapidly as pos-. sible, quite satisfied with the dis- covery he had made. He slept soundly until next morning, without further distarb- ance, and rose late. He wasabout to leave his room and set his mas- pa gomen he heard voices, and crept cautionsly tolisten. He distinctly saw the person of a sen- try with his’ back turned to the door of -the room in which ‘his master was confined. Healsodis- cry nent the sound of many men a It was quite evident that Regin had received a considerable acces- sion of strength in the night. Ragg quietly gathered up his tools, lipped sal of his door, shut it behind him, and, turnin to the ht, begun ‘following é path which the master of the house had shown him the n before. As he ex a ong hen the top of the = er there was an . it was in the center of a nek Corney did not stop to ex- before Bim, leadiigr eastward, aad ore east = determined to avail himself-of tance veivect meet and Hackett ca satistied that = serving the interest To have attempted to resene him under the cireumstances, would have been to have run too great a risk, | When Ralph in the that Cornelius had pest A Ph encase oe the er to to Frog’s Hole, his tee no bounds. At of Indians and white men, h Simon y; had arrived at COMmMicbOoOks.COnn ~