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MEZZONI THE BRIGAND. 43 CHAPTER V. A STAND UP FIGHT. Marion Bray, on being separated from her father, found herself carried rapidly up into the hills, by paths, of which she could only now and then catch a glimpse by means of the dim starlight. For more than five hours the sturdy mountaineers who bore the Sedan chair toiled on, stopping occa- sionally, but only for a moment, to change positions at the supporting-poles. The two horsemen left the party at a point which seemed to be a regular halt- ing place, and beyond which it would have been im- . possible for the horses to proceed on account of the rough character of the path. He who had seemed to be the leader of these men had once come to the small window in the Sedan chair, and had repeated the same assurances to Marion herself which he had given to her father, so that the brave English girl had resolved to make the best of her situation, and await her father’s efforts in her behalf. At last the door of the Sedan chair was opened, and Marion found herself at the entrance of a sort of half-natural, and half-artificially constructed cave, or dwelling, within the side of the mountain, and ' far up toward its very summit. Here she was shown into a division, isolated from the domestic depart- ments, and where a middle-aged woman of the hum- bler class attended her. The cave was quite spacious, and divided into a (ele) cComicbooks