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"Do you hear it again, Julie?"

Yes, Julie heard it: It ithout any doubt, singing to quiet the

groundless apprehensions of sa h the night Annette awoke, and began to

think of her lover's peril and probable captivity, the soft, scented

night wind bore to her ears a note or two of reassuring music from

the throat of the maiden-bird

Before the sun had cleared the horizon on the morrow the breakfast

was ended, the tent rolled; and the saddles were upon the horses

Then the trio set out at a brisk trot; the chief to join his people

upon their reserve, the girls to find Inspector Dicken at Battleford

I do not like "breaking threads," but it is necessary that, for the

present, I should allow my two Metis o back to where I left Captain Stephens in the

gulch

The route of the two horserassland, and as the path was not les here

and there al as they rode,