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 spite of all that he could do, he comforted her and patted her shoulder gently and said:—"Never mind, it will be all right in a little while,—don't worry," and Marjorie almost forgot her fetters and the roughness of the way, and the choke in her throat,—and became quite happy again.

By and by the trail led out upon the very top ridge of the spur, and they looked down into a deep gorge on the other side, the banks upgrown with trees and tall ferns and a wild, dense undergrowth, and far below they could hear a stream rushing and roaring.

"Now," said the boy, "we have to go to the bottom of this gorge and out of the mouth of it, to get back to the level country again. I came here to see about a bit of land just below where we are now; so we will find the trail and go down, and then work our way out along the stream."

Marjorie looked down the steep, tan-