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Two were white, Girty and Blackstaffe, and there were Yellow Panther, Red Eagle, Captain Pipe, the Delaware, and White Lightning, the great Timmendiquas of the Wyandots. They were talking in the Shawnee tongue, which he understood well, and despite all his experience and self-control, a tremor shook him. They stopped near him and continued their conversation.
A shout answered from the shore, and directly eager voices and rapid footsteps rushed toward the little cove; first came Ralph, wild with joy, leaping downward like a panther. "Is she safe! is she here!" he cried, pausing with dread upon the bank. "Ralph, Ralph!" He knew the voice. He sprang into the boat, and fell upon his knees before his mother. "Thank God, oh mother, mother!"
Barozzo, who had started from the ground, and now stood foaming at the mouth like a chafed panther, said nothing in reply, but seized his sword, and rushed upon his generous adversary with desperate but unavailing ferocity.
The Panther had remounted, and he drew to one side with Will and Obed, who were also on their horses. His face was glowing with anger. Never had he looked more tremendous as he sat on his horse, with the water still flowing from him. "Colonel Fannin," he called out, "you can go back to Goliad, but as for me an' my pardners, Obed White an' Will Allen, we're goin' to Bexar, an' the Alamo."
At one side of the camp was a small series of rocks, and from them gushed forth a spring of cold water, running over the rocks and into the tall grass out of sight. The weather had remained perfect, and the last twenty-four hours had been productive of sport not to be despised. They had found a beaver dam and taken twelve beavers, and had also laid low two deer and a cougar, or panther.
Henry awoke only once, and that was about half way between midnight and morning, when his senses, never still entirely, even in sleep, warned him that something was at the door. He rose cautiously upon his arm, saw a dark muzzle at the crevice, and behind it a pair of yellow, gleaming eyes. He knew at once that it was a panther, probably living in the swamp and drawn by the food.
"Don't show them to me, Cuthbert, it frightens me when you talk of her." "You must remember that she is a mixture, Mary; she is like a panther, as graceful, and as supple; a charming beast when it purrs and rubs itself against the legs of its keeper, terrible when, in passion, it hurls itself upon him. In the early days the students were, to a man, fascinated with her.
Monte-Cristo wrote the name in his pocketbook and then said: "If I should happen to find Gratillet, I shall not forget your recommendation." "Thanks beforehand. Gratillet is a curious fellow, and I shall not feel surprised if you meet him in peaceful transactions with a panther. He is not afraid of any kind of devil." "Then he is the man for me."
Surely here was a trail winding along the very edge of the ledges, under masses of overhanging rock some dizzy runway of prehistoric man, perhaps trodden, too, by wolf and panther, and later by the lank mountaineer hunter or smuggler creeping to some eerie unsuspected by any living creature save, perhaps, the silver-headed eagles soaring through the fathomless azure vault above.
It was the peculiar kind of light that he had seen before, when a ray from the sun struck squarely on the steel head of a lance. "Look!" he said to Obed and Bowie. They looked, and Bowie instantly halted his men. The face of the Ring Tailed Panther suddenly lighted up. Texans don't carry lances an' I think we shall be attacked by a Mexican force within a few minutes, Colonel Bowie."
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