CHAPTER X.
"THAT MAKES FOUR OF YOU!"
As the outlaw's warning cry sounded through the cave Arietta gave a shout of defiance and darted into the passage.
Like Wild, she had seen the curtain lifted when she was carried into the cave, and she knew that curtain was not far away.
It was doubtful if she would be fired at by the villains, she thought, but there was really no telling, so she drew her revolver and looked over her shoulder as she ran.
Both the man who saw her when she was nearly out and the other villain were now running swiftly through the cave, and each of them had a drawn revolver.
Arietta ran as far as she could go, and then she came in contact with the painted curtain.
She did not know how to manipulate it, of course, so the best thing she could do was to reach for the bottom and lift it.
This she did, and, much to her joy, it came up easily.
A quick move and she had darted under it and was outside in the pass.