and then staggered in a manner not at all comfortable upon so narrow a trail; and at last, reaching a point where the way was wider, he stumbled and fell in the grass at the side of the path, and lay still, breathing heavily, his arms over his head; probably expecting every moment to be his last.
However, Dick only stopped and stood looking down ironically at the heaving shoulders; and presently the man, being unable to stand the suspense of this silence containing he knew not what, raised his face, crimson from his long and agitated exertion, and stared at the man contemplating him. Dick stood with his hands in his pockets, grinning down upon his prostrate enemy, and quoted facetiously the absurd little jingle which had been running in his mind as he chased the fugitive down the mountain:—
And then he laughed and walked on down the trail, knowing that the man was too exhausted to leave his recumbent attitude for an hour or more, and too chastened to think up anything new right off.
Dick whistled a gay tune as he approached the two little houses on the Tantalus ridge. Tonight he would tell Evalani that she was to be his wife, and they would together plan out their future course. Tonight they would sit in the moonlight on her
