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The whites were heard rushing through the bushes the chief seized the trembling girl in his arms a bullet whizzed by his head -but, unmindful of danger, he vanished among the dark bushes with his burden. "She's gone! she's gone!" exclaimed Roughgrove, looking aghast at the vacated pit under the fallen trunk.
At this moment Joe and Sneak appeared at the door. "There's a covered flat-boat just landed down at the ferry," said Joe. "It is from the island above," said Roughgrove, "and the one I have had constructed for our voyage down the river." "Are we going, sure enough?" asked Joe. "Yes; to-morrow," said Glenn.
I only ran in to tell Miss Mary about it." "Now go to bed. Don't speak to me agin to night," said Sneak, indignantly. "I'll go and get something to eat," said Joe, retreating into the house. "Tell Roughgrove to come here," said Boone, speaking to Joe. "I will," said Joe, vanishing through the door.
Though very pale, the girl now smiled playfully, and returning to her father, said, in tones so low that no one else could hear, "Father, he says you must instantly cross the river for assistance I will be safe, under his protection, till you return." "I'll do it!" replied Roughgrove, setting off towards the ferry.
They both clung to me as their only remaining friend, and in truth I learned that all other friends had forsaken them. I looked upon the deceived, outraged, but still innocent Juliet, with pity. Her little cherub twins " "Twins!" echoed Glenn. "Ay, twins," replied Roughgrove, "and they lie behind you now, side by side, on yonder bed."
"Whatever good may have attended my efforts," said Glenn, "you may rest assured that I have been amply repaid in the satisfaction enjoyed myself." "I am sure of it!" exclaimed Roughgrove; "and it was a conviction that you harboured such sentiments that induced me to confide in you, and to disclose things which I intended should remain for ever locked within my own breast."
The son, whom you thought lost forever, may be living, and possibly reclaimed, and Mary shall be restored, if human efforts can accomplish it. Cheer up. Many a happy day may still be reserved for you." "Oh! my dear young friend! if you but knew all!" said Roughgrove. "Do I not now know all?" asked Glenn.
He evidently supposed that his captors were about to slay him, and he looked up, as he thought, the last time, at the moon and the stars, and his lips moved in deep and silent adoration. Roughgrove opened the gate, and the savage followed him out, composedly awaiting his fate.
He was strengthened in this determination by the repeated and painful surmises of Roughgrove respecting Mary's piteous condition. Glenn, and the rest, with perhaps one or two exceptions, likewise seemed disposed to make an instantaneous termination of the torturing suspense respecting the fate of the poor girl. Boone and Sneak led the way.
"I have an extra rifle at home," said Glenn, "which shall be yours, as a reward for your gallant conduct." "Where is the chief? Is he dead?" asked Mary. "If he ain't dead, his head's harder than my gun, that's all," said Sneak. "Oh, I'm so sorry!" said Mary. "Why, my child?" asked Roughgrove. "Because," said Mary, "he's a good-hearted Indian, and never would have harmed me.
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