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She was close to his door. It was probable that he would be in his room at that hour. She was in fear of her life, and she knocked. But Dalrymple had not come back. He had gone for a long walk alone in the hills, had climbed higher as the sun sank lower, and was belated in steep paths along which even his mountain-trained feet trod with some caution.
They went in, cautiously picking their way through this deeper darkness, and trusting much to the instinct of their mountain-trained steeds to take them safely through. An hour's slow, careful, breathless riding brought them out upon the other side of the mountain. As they emerged from the dark labyrinth, Lyon Berners pulled up his horse to breathe, and to look about him.
But the keen eye of the man used to danger, had seen his stealthy preparation, and his wrist was caught in a grasp of iron. The city-bred villain was no match for his mountain-trained companion and the struggle was short. Keeping his hold upon Whitley's wrist, Jake threw his long right arm around his antagonist and drew him close, in a crushing embrace.
As they sat in the lee of the great rock, with the wind that sweeps the mountain tops singing in the pines above their heads, they looked directly down upon the wide Galena Valley and far across to the spurs and slopes of the San Jacintos beyond. Sibyl's keen eyes mountain-trained from childhood marked a railway train crawling down the grade from San Gorgonio Pass toward the distant ocean.
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