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"If you were only upon the river in yonder flat boat," said Captain

Stephens, "you ht drop quietly down to Battleford The

reinforcement would come quite opportunely to Morrison"

"I do not care to leave here without giving the rebels a little of

our lead," the Inspector replied "But even though I desired to do

so, now, the thing as you see is iht fell, and when it cao-coloured cloud had risen before the set of sun,

in the south east, and crept slowly over the whole heavens, widening

its dark arht fell there was not a point of

light to be seen anywhere in the heavens

"It would seees with His darkness"

Shortly after dark the wind began to wail like a tortured spirit

along the plain; and in the lull between the blasts the cry of

strange night-birds could be heard coining from each little thicket

of white oak or cottonwood

Louder and louder grew the screah the ribs of the stockade, like a Titan blowing through the

teeth of a giant comb

Inspector Dicken, with Captain Stephens at his side, was standing at