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any one of you that we catch in pistol range again We now leave

you" With these words the two sanguinary girls turned their horses,

and briskly rode away

"What idiots they must have been to folloithout fire-arms," Julie

said

"Had we been armed only with hatchets, how different the case would

have been, enfant naif You, child,

of blood unnecessary, and therefore cruel"

Oh, no; Julie did not think it so La maitresse knew better than she

did

"But there was only the choice between taking thethe four Indians on terra fires would have been killed; or, in the hurried shooting, we

ht have missed the mark, and been cloven or speared"

"Where shall ht?"

"I know an extensive bluff, and we could penetrate it far enough to

be tolerably safe from the braves"

When the upper ri flairls turned their

horses towards a stretch of soation of cloaked men upon the level