LLS REDIVIVUS 253
XX. SUCCOUR 266
XXI. THE BROKEN DOOR 284
XXII. THE BLIZZARD 295
XXIII. THE SOLITARY PURSUER 315
XXIV. IN DEATH CANYON 326
XXV. EPILOGUE: SPOKEN BY CHARLEY 342

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Look!" she cried. "Isn't it like the frontispiece
to a book ofadventure!" _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE
At the same instant the boat lurched drunkenly;
and they pitched overboard together 150

There, clinging to the corner of the cabin for support,
stood the figure of a woman 212

It was a grim figure that the first rays of light
revealed sitting on the big rock 336

TWO ON THE TRAIL

I

IN PAPPS'S RESTAURANT

The interior of Papps's, like most Western restaurants, was divided into
a double row of little cabins with a passage between, each cabin having
a swing door. Garth Pevensey found the place very full; and he was
ushered into a cubby-hole which already contained two diners, a man and
a woman nearing the end of their meal. They appeared to be incoming
settlers of the better class--a farmer and his wife from across the
line. Far from resenting Garth's intrusion, they visibly welcomed it;
after all, there was something uncomfortably suggestive of a cell in
those narrow cabins to which the light of day never penetrated.

Garth passed behind the farmer's chair, and seated himself next the
wall. He had no sooner ordered his luncheon than the door was again
opened, and the rotund Mr. Papps, with profuse apologies, introduced
a fourth to their table. The vacant place, it appeared, was the very
last remaining in his establishment.

The newcomer was a girl; young, slender and decidedly pretty: such was
Garth's first impression. She came in without hesitation, and took the
place opposite Garth with that serenely oblivious air so characteristic
of the highly civilized young lady. Very trimly and quietly dressed,
sufficiently well-bred to accept the situation as a matter of course.
Thus Garth's further impressions. "What a girl to be meeting up in this
corner of the world, and how I should like to know her!" he added in
his mind. The maiden's bland alo