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Long, grey shadows flattened themselves against the walls of the canyon-moving shadows-five of them. The moonlight, except where it was cut off by the figures on horseback, flooded the rocky gorge.
The men were almost as silent as these silhouettes while they rode forward. The ponies, sensing the tenseness in the air, restrained their tendency to whinny at the ghostly trees along the sides.