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beneath h the man Bob had

dropped back, the saturnine Jeremy ran on, no nearer, but no

farther than before

Now, as I went, I presently espied that for which I had looked

--a gate set in the ate, before or since, appear quite so high and

insurmountable; but, with the desperation of despair, I turned,

ran at it, and sprang, swinging razed the top bar--down I caained y turf I heard a

crash behind me, an oath, a second pistol barked, and imlancing down, I

saw the skin cut and bleeding, but, finding it no worse, breathed

a sigh of thankfulness, and ran on

By that leap I had probably gained soth, therefore If I could once gain the woods!

How far off were they?--half-a-mile, a mile?--well, I could run

that easily, thanks to my hardy life Stay! as that sound

behindof my own

heart? I turned my head; the man Jeremy ithin twelve yards

of me--lean and spare, his head thrust forward, he ran with the

long, easy stride of a greyhound