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During the last year many dark tales had gone from camp to camp in Idaho—some too strange, too horrible for credence—and with every rumor the fame of Kells had grown, and also a fearful certainty of the rapid growth of a legion of evil men out on the border.

Then this amiable, well-spoken Kells, he was no Western rough—he spoke like an educated man.

Joan raised up a little to see Kells motionless and absorbed by the fire.

That Kells had let that influence him— as Roberts had imagined—was more than absurd.

Jim had ridden for the border with the avowed and desperate intention of finding Kells and Gulden and the bad men of that trackless region.

Bill and Halloway appeared loquacious, and inclined to steal glances at Joan when Kells could not notice.

Then Bill took advantage of the absence of Kells, who went down to the brook, and he began to leer at Joan and make bold eyes at her.

Since she still lived, which was strange indeed in the illuminating light of her later insight into Kells and his kind, she had to meet him with all that was catlike and subtle and devilish at the command of a woman.

The afternoon was far advanced when Kells started to descend again, and he rode a zigzag course on weathered slopes and over brushy benches, down and down into the canons again.

Just this slight thing, this frail link that joined Kells to his past and better life, immeasurably inspirited Joan and outlined the difficult game she had to play.

How little, a few nights back, when Jim Cleve had menaced Joan with the names of Kells and Gulden, had she imagined they were actual men she was to meet and fear!

Joan knew that only an Indian could follow the tortuous and rocky trail by which Kells had brought her in.

She went over to her saddle, which Kells had removed from her pony, and, opening the saddlebag, she took inventory of her possessions.

Then, resolutely, she got up and crossed over to where Kells was unpacking.

It struck her forcibly that she had lost some of her fear of Kells and she did not know why.