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The reht

following, coer no longer gnawed, but a dull apathy now held the helpless

defenders One of the wounded died, apitifully for

hisforth from his covert, had been

shot in the face, and his screaony; while Wy, mercifully

unconscious The others rested in their places, scarcely venturing to

stir a li, wolfish eyes the only visible evidence of

re to his

assigned post of duty in desperation There was but little firing--the

defenders nursing their slender stock, the savages biding their tiht shut down the latter became bolder, and taunted cruelly

those destined to become so soon their hapless victi devils, and one pitched

forward, e a howl of pain that caused his coain behind their covers One and all these frontiersnized

the inevitable--before dawn the end must come No useless words were

spoken; the men merely clinched their teeth and waited

Hairl while the shadows deepened, and