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This far at least she had been with them. The men now spread out upon either side of the track Theriere and Red Sanders upon one side, Byrne and Wison upon the other. Occasionally Theriere would return to the trail to search for further indications of the spoor they sought.
Silently the party retraced its steps up the cliff. Theriere and Billy Byrne brought up the rear. "What do you make of it anyway, Byrne?" asked the Frenchman. "If you wanta get it straight, cul," replied the mucker, "I tink youse know a whole lot more about it dan you'd like to have de rest of us tink." "What do you mean, Byrne?" cried Theriere. "Out with it now!" "Sure I'll out wid it.
The samurai were rushing rapidly upon the wounded officer it was a question who would reach him first. Theriere had been nipped in the act of reloading his revolver. It lay beside him now, the cylinder full of fresh cartridges. The mucker was first to his side, and snatching the weapon from the ground fired coolly and rapidly at the advancing Japanese.
"Avast there, Byrne!" he shouted. "It's I, Theriere. Don't shoot again, I want to speak to you." "No monkey business now," growled the mucker in reply. "I won't miss again." "I want to talk with you, Byrne," said Theriere in a low tone. "I'm coming down there." "No you ain't, cul," returned Byrne; "leastways yeh ain't a-comin' down here alive."
Well that don't change the looks of things a mite. We gotta get that man outa there an' these flea-bitten imitations of men ain't got the guts to go in after him." "He's got your gun, sir," spoke up Wison, "an' Gawd knows he be the one as'ud on'y be too glad for the chanct to use it." "Let me see if I can't handle him, sir," said Theriere to Skipper Simms.
When Simms gave up the ship Barbara Harding saw the wheelmen, there had been two of them, desert their post, and almost instantly the nose of the Halfmoon turned toward the rocks; but scarcely had the men reached the deck than Theriere leaped to their place at the wheel. Unassisted he could do little with the heavy helm.
Theriere," she cried, "if you only can but arrange it so, how relieved and almost happy I shall be. How can I ever repay you for all that you have done for me?" Again she saw the light leap to the man's eyes the light of a love that would not be denied much longer other than through the agency of a mighty will.
"Yes," said Theriere, "it would be in the back room which the boy described.
"Yeh listen all right, cul," he said at last; "an' I'm willin' to take yeh at yer own say-so until I learn different." "Thanks," said Theriere tersely. "Now we can work together in the search for Miss Harding; but where, in the name of all that's holy, are we to start?" "Why, where we seen her last, of course," replied the mucker. "Right here on top of dese bluffs."
Formerly he had hated her for the things she stood for, now he hated her for herself. Theriere was often with her now, and, less frequently, Divine; for at the second officer's suggestion Barbara had not acquainted that gentleman with the fact that she was aware of his duplicity. "It is just as well not to let him know," said Theriere.
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