110
XI. Self-Defense 125
XII. The Meeting 138
XIII. The Other Lady's Husband 148
XIV. A Descent 162
XV. Levels and Slants 176
XVI. Metal and Mettle 185
XVII. A Shot in the Dusk 197
XVIII. On the Brink 207
XIX. The Plotters 218
XX. Indian Shoes 232
XXI. Madonna Dolorosa 244
XXII. A Real Wolf 254
XXIII. The Temptation 268
XXIV. Blind Love 280
XXV. The Descent Into Hell 291
XXVI. In the Gloom 303
XXVII. Lower Depths 315
XXVIII. Light in the Darkness 327
XXIX. The Climber 339
XXX. Lurking Beasts 349
XXXI. Confessions 357
XXXII. Over the Brink 366
XXXIII. Friends in Need 374
XXXIV. Reclamation 388

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

It was a wild race _Frontispiece_

It sounded its shrill, menacing rattle 106

"You have something to tell me--your voice--your
eyes--" 286

Another desperate clutch at the rope--still another 328

OUT OF THE DEPTHS

CHAPTER I

DEEP CANYON

The hunter was riding leisurely up the steep mountain side above Dry
Mesa. On such an ascent most city men would have preferred to climb
afoot. But there was a month's layer of tan on the hunter's handsome,
supercilious face. H