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As good fortune would have it, ung in, opposite the screened

mouth of Henry's Bayou, at a tiht have observed us, although far across the forest we

could see a black colu up

"Quick with that long boat, Lafitte," I ordered; and he drew our old

craft alongside as we slowed down "Get over yonder and sound for a

bar Take the boat hook If you get four feet, we'll try it"

My hardy young ruffian was nothing if not proe deck-hand It was he who did the sounding

while Willie, our factotum, pulled slowly in toward the lasses, noting that rarely

could Lafitte find any botto shaft of the boat

hook "She's all right, Peterson," said I "Follow on in, slowly--I

don't want that steamer yonder to catch us"

"Why don't you?" A voice I should know, to which all my body would

thrill, did I hear it in any corner of the world, spoke at my elbow

I started for a half instant before I ain of the perfu for a

man: the scent of a woman's hair

"Because, Helena," said I, "I wish our boat to lie unnoticed for a

time, till the hue and cry has lulled a bit"

"And then?" She bent on aze, so difficult to resist, and

smiled at me with the corners of her lips, so subtly irresistible I

felt a rush of fire sweep through all ave back a bit and stood ely, "this boat runs by all the towns, till we