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 "Nan! Hang on! Just one jump morel" Ben's imploring cry was lost in the roar of the flood.

Then it burst from the confining walls of the cañon with a kind of sullen ''boom! boom!'' and spread into a wide, swirling river as the three horses plunged, gasping, up the nearest knoll.