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While the Indian was suffering the sunset clouds to fill hiain with dread, Annette and Julie were keeping

their ponies at their fleetest pace to regain sight of the party

"Do you know, Julie, I feel a presentiht The captors will not drearounds and known trails, and they will be

off their guard See! yonder they ca, a pyra showers of sparks,

shot up fro directly before them

"Rein in, Julie, we must find a bluff a safe distance off for our

horses Should they get scent or sight of the ponies in yonder ca to the left, and taking a course at right angles to

their late one, they rode slowly and silently till a bluff rose from

the prairie, a short distance in front, like a hill

"We shall tether our horses here, Julie; but I believe our stay will

not be a long one" And the pair dismounted, tied their tired beasts,

and swiftly raised the white sides of their tent

"Ee-e-e-e!" it was Julie who gave the shriek The thicket was

swar eyes had

brushed the face of the maiden with its pinion "What is it, ht eyes, and it touched ain"