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THROUGH the chill grey dawn, heavy with clouds, obscure with mist that the yet unrisen sun had not scattered, Lyle Orcheton rode as one rides when life or death is at stake. There could be no more halting, no more indecision. The gauntlet of defiance had been thrown, and the lists entered--woman against man, patience against cunning, weakness against power. An unfair match, yet she did not quail.
"The right must win," she told herself. "The right--that only."