A sense of coming danger filled her. Yet she
kept on, holding a tight rein, throwing many a fearful glance at the
vast rocks which might have concealed an entire army in every mile
of their extent.
When she found the cabin she mistook it at first for merely another
rock of singular shape. It was at this shape that she stared, and
checked her horse, and not till then did she note the faint flicker of
a light no brighter than the phosphorescent glow of the eyes of a
hunted beast.
Her impulse was to drive her spurs home and pass that place at a
racing gallop, but she checked the impulse sharply and began to
reason. In the first place, it was doubtless only the cabin of some
prospector, such as she had often heard of. In the second place, night
was almost upon her, and she saw no desirable camping-place, or at
least any with the necessary water at hand.
What harm could come to her? Among Western men, she well knew a woman
is safer than all the law and the police of the settled East can make
her, so she nerved her courage and advanced toward the faint,
changing light.
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