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"Hurry on! hurry on!" he gasped from time to time. "We
are through the line of sentinels. Everything depends on

speed. Hurry on!"

“快点儿！快点儿！”他气喘吁吁地不时催促着，“咱们已经闯过
了警戒线了。一切就靠速度了。快点儿！”

Once on the high road they made rapid progress. Only
once did they meet anyone, and then they managed to slip
into a field, and so avoid recognition. Before reaching the

town the hunter branched away into a rugged and narrow
footpath which led to the mountains. Two dark jagged peaks
loomed above them through the darkness, and the defile
which led between them was the Eagle Ca�on in which the
horses were awaiting them. With unerring instinct Jefferson

Hope picked his way among the great boulders and along
the bed of a dried-up watercourse, until he came to the
retired corner, screened with rocks, where the faithful

animals had been picketed. The girl was placed upon the
mule, and old Ferrier upon one of the horses, with his
money-bag, while Jefferson Hope led the other along the
precipitous and dangerous path.

一上了大道，他们就立刻迅速前进。路上，他们只碰到过一次
人，并成功地躲进了麦田，以免人认出。快到城边的时候，猎手霍普
又折进了一条通向山间的崎岖小道。黑暗中，只见两座黑压压的巍峨

大山浮现在眼前，他们所走的这条山间狭道就是鹰谷，马匹就在这里

等着他们。霍普靠着他从未出错的本能，在乱石之中前进。沿着一条
干涸了的小溪，他们来到一个山石遮蔽着的安静角落里，忠心的骡马

都拴在这里。露西骑上一匹骡子，老费里尔带着他的钱袋，骑上了一
匹马，杰斐逊·霍普骑着另外一匹，沿着险峻的山道，领着他们前进。

It was a bewildering route for anyone who was not
accustomed to face Nature in her wildest moods. On the one
side a great crag towered up a thousand feet or more, black,
stern, and menacing, with long basaltic columns upon its

rugged surface like the ribs of some petrified monster. On