Chapter 31 THE OUTLAW'S WIFE.

For some moments Pet continued to struggle violently, but finding all her efforts vain-worse than vain-and being half-suffocated for want of air, she fell back in her captor's arms, and lay perfectly still and quiet.

In that dreadful moment, she lost not one particle of her customary self-possession. She realized all her danger and peril vividly

            
            

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