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When he was gone, I stood still for a while and watched the sloeep of a buzzard high in the blue, after which I unsheathed er, and with it tried to scrape the driedbut indifferently, I put the blade up, stared again at the sky, drew a long breath, and marched upon the covert of cedars indicated by Hamor

As I neared it, I heard at first only the wash of the river; but presently there came to ry "Begone, sir!"

"Kiss and be friends," said theof the loudest for even thethe bushes, to find thehis cheek, and the maid her hand

"You shall pay well for that, you sweet vixen!" he cried, and caught her by both wrists

She struggled fiercely, bending her head this way and that, but his hot lips had touched her face before I could come between

When I had knocked hi up at me with his small ferret eyes I knew hiood of hiland He lay on the very brink of the strea the water Flesh and blood could not resist it, so, assisted by the toe of my boot, he took a cold bath to cool his hot blood

When he had cla, I turned to face her She stood against the trunk of a great cedar, her head thrown back, a spot of angry crimson in each cheek, one sh as Sharpless touched the water, but now there was only defiance in her face As we gazed at each other, a burst of laughter came to us from theHamor, probably disappointed of a wife,--with Giles Allen and Wynne, returning to his abandoned quarry She saw, too, for the crimson spread and deepened and her boso here and there like those of a hunted creature, met my own

"Madaely "Do you live here?" she asked at last, with a disdainful wave of her hand toward the town