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The Cave in the Mountain - A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne by Edward S. (Edward Sylvester) Ellis
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Thus they were shut in on both sides, and fairly caught between two fires.




CHAPTER XV.

ON THE DEFENSIVE.


AT the moment of reining up their mustangs, the fugitives were about
equidistant between the two fires, and it was just as dangerous to advance
as to retreat. For one second the Irishman meditated a desperate charge,
in the hope of breaking through the company that first appeared in his
path, and, had he been alone, or accompanied by a man, he would have done
so. But, slight as was his own prospect of escape, he knew there was
absolutely none for the boy in such a desperate effort, and he determined
that it should not be made.

"Can't we make a dash straight through them?" asked Fred, reading the
thought of Mickey, as he glanced from one to the other, and noted the
fearfully rapid approach of the redskins.

"It can't be done," replied the Irishman. "There is only one thing left
for us."

"What is that?"

"Do as I do. Yonder is an opening that may serve us for awhile."

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