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, Ml The Rollg Royce was parked in the bush at the brink of one of the long rounded Topanga rangeso The vast Pacific ‘Ocean spread’ out this day under: a clean sky and ‘untinted’ wavelengths from the suns Prankster noticed a large ranch house-at a dis= tance of about two hundred yards due: South, and he wondered if this might be-their destination, But the man who had ‘been silently driving indicated’ a= direction leading down a ravines The shotgun man seemed to know where-he was was going also, and Prankster and Davenport followed’ the two men down a thin path, Red, purple, yellow were the barries up wild, and the wind was swift and cool at the- Place of their decention just after the crest. At the top of crevice the wind had switched a good . Ward a medow way below, and as they wound further “W735 couk/bE SEEY, down through what was becomming more the shape and spread of a canyon, this wind funneled out and. did push forcefully at their backs until Prankster felt a sensation to the possibility of being shoved under, and at the asses time knew it odd to feel’ heat real= ized'in hig bones and rising to his temples, It had occurred 'to Prankster to ask the two men about making a check of the road that had led them there, before: