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Ellerey fired into the air to put Stefan on the alert, and seizing Grigosie's arm for the boy was nearly beaten he dashed down the steep incline. Stefan saw them and spoke quickly to Anton, who for a moment seemed inclined to lose his head. The soldier's sharp command steadied him, and the moment Grigosie was beside him he lifted him bodily into the saddle and then sprang to his own. "No others?"
"Vasilici's knife would have written finis to my history had it not been for you, Grigosie." The boy colored a little with pleasure. "Still you forget, Captain, that Anton and I were not of your choosing. We forced ourselves into your company." "What of it? I am glad, I " and then the look in Grigosie's eyes stopped Ellerey suddenly.
The foremost runner on the last occasion was Grigosie's mark, and he missed him. The man had bounded forward to make his capture when Ellerey's revolver sounded again. It was not the moment to hazard a shot, to aim at the swiftly moving limbs. The man leapt into the air and fell sprawling on his face, and with one spasmodic kick lay still. Grigosie turned and ran on again without a word.
I care not which road we take, nor to what it leads us." "We will follow her," said Ellerey. "I'd never leave so good a comrade as Grigosie in a tight place," murmured Stefan. "Keep watch, Captain, while I gather up what we take with us, and fill our flasks at Grigosie's fairy fountain yonder." When Stefan returned, he found Ellerey standing on the edge of the plateau looking down into the pass.
"They have just been found lying side by side in the Bergenstrasse, dead murdered!" Desmond Ellerey stood with his sword lowered and his head bowed. As he spoke her name a flush came into his cheeks. His anger at Grigosie's deceit had been great, stern, cold, and judicial only in such a spirit could he take vengeance on the lad; now it was shame which flamed into his cheeks.
For a moment there were only two or three, who had approached silently, but their shouts upon being discovered brought a crowd rushing to their assistance. When Anton had deserted his post to come to Grigosie's help, the temptation to secure an easy victory had been too great for those who watched the plateau.
"Unless they were already there when we passed, they will hardly have time to intercept us," was Grigosie's answer to this fear. "Probably they were there, lad," said Ellerey. "We've about an equal chance with the hare that is being coursed." "He gets away sometimes," was the answer. They ran swiftly, mounting higher and higher as they went.
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