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The howling of the wolves, and the scream of a panther, leaping to make a kill, passed unheard. Suddenly she declared: "You were right, Basdel." "About what, Patsy?" "About my not fitting in west of the mountains." "That was said before you were tried. No woman, even border-born, could be more brave than you have been." "And I was so woefully wrong when I made fun of your long rifle.
If he had been a younger brother of my own blood the common parentage could not have made him tenderer. 'Twas not the mere outgushing of a nature open-armed to make a bosom friend of all the world; nor any feminine softness on his part. If I have drawn him thus my pen is but a clumsy quill, for he was manly-rough and masterful, with all the native strength and vigor of the border-born.
At this cool outlaying of the working plan, some proper sense of what this plot of savage-arming meant to every undefended cabin on the frontier seized and thrilled me. I knew, as every border-born among us knew, the dismal horrors of an Indian massacre; and this these men were planning was treacherous murder on an unwarned people. All was to be done in midnight secrecy.
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