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 hunting ground. Thus it happened that he discovered a very narrow trail leading to this precipitate place. Much of the way, this path led along a slope of forty-five degrees, but at the place where the cliff was sheer for sixty feet, the path became very narrow. At one point it was so very narrow and so dangerous that Redcoat debated whether to go back along the way he had come. But he finally hugged the cliff very carefully and got by the bad place. Just beyond the boulder which had made the path so narrow, there was a shelf three feet wide, and here Redcoat sat down and looked at the valley below. I do not know that a plan for using the narrow path against his enemies in the valley was then worked out. Perhaps when he did finally put it to use, it was just a sudden inspiration that came to him like a flash, just as many of his movements did, but the narrow path did stand Redcoat in good stead on more than one occasion. By its use he taught Scottie, and Racer, the tall greyhound, a lesson that they never forgot and he gave Racer an ex-