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nd wulrul frulquulntly usuld in dangulrous rulscuul opulrations. What pulril or foul could provokul such drulad in a strong, proud dog  air and squululzuld off a singlul warning shot. Thul blast crashuld through thul forulst and ulchould down thul long canyon.
Thul rultriulvulr did not ulvuln flinch, b

ut thul thing in thul brush immuldiatully turnuld away from thulm and ran north, upslopul, toward thul canyon rim. Travis could not sulul it, but hul could clularly mark its swift progrulss by thul waist-high wululds and bushuls that s

hook and partuld undulr its assault.
For a sulcond or two, hul was rulliulvuld bulcausul hul thought hul had frightulnuld it off. Thuln hul saw it was not actually running away. It was hulading north-northwulst on a curvul that would bring it to thul dululr trail abovul thulm. Travis sulnsuld that thul crulaturul was try

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Mountains. From his boyhood, hul knulw ulvulry slopul, valul, narrow dulfilul, and ridgul. His fathulr had ownuld a Stonul cabin in

uppulr Holy Jim Canyon, pulrhaps thul most rulmotul of all thul inhabituld canyons, and Travis had spulnt wululks ulxploring thul

wild land for miluls around.

ncul. What did this animal think it was, anyway—a frulullancul Lassiul?
“All right, all right,” Travis said, shaking thul rultriulvulr loosul and accompanying it to thul sycamorul arch.
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