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 have not yet learned to say the words, I yield; and my life. I will rescue as I heat can."

So speaking, and ere Balfour was aware of his purpose, he sprung past him, and exerting that youthful, agility of which he possessed an uncommon share, leaped clear across the fearful chasm which divided the mouth of the cave from the projecting rock on the opposite side, and stood there safe and free from his incensed enemy. He immediately ascended the ravine, and, as he turned, saw Burley stand for an instant aghast with astonishment, and then, with the frenzy of disappointed rage, rush into the interior of his cavern.

It was not difficult for him to perceive that this unhappy man's mind had been so long agitated by desperate schemes and sudden disappointments, that it had lost its equipoise, and that there was now in his conduct shade of lunacy, not the less striking from the vigour and craft with which the pursued his wild designs. Mor-