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Why I did not instantly arouse the camp, I cannot tell. I waited several minutes, then quietly cocked my rifle beneath my blankets, and touched Jerry on the shoulder. The instant he felt it, he started; but my low "s-h" apprised him of danger, and he again resumed his old position. In a low tone, I told him what I had seen. He waited a few moments and then aroused the camp.
They could see no rider, though there was something on the animal's back, which might have been a warrior lying flat, so as to protect his body from the rifle of the white man, or, what was equally probable, the owner was standing on the ground hidden by the horse, and awaiting his chance to send in a fatal shot. "What's the matter?" asked Dot, puzzled by the action of her parents. "S-h!
And the cakes the bread the pies! You must delay the supper my lady, for the good Lord deliver me if I haven't spilled all the dough on the floor! Swas-s-s- s-h such a mess! And my Iowaka did nothing but laugh and call me a clumsy dear!" "You're terribly in love, Jean," cried Melisse, laughing until her eyes were wet; "just like some of the people in the books which Jan and I read."
He was about to proceed when a chorus of snores in every imaginable pitch and key effectively checked his utterance. With an indignant "Sh s-h!" the audience turned in their seats to witness the following astonishing spectacle.
Most of the tumult outside had been cut off from their hearing, by the retirement into the arcade. They paused, to plan their course. At Stern the girl looked eagerly. "Oh, oh, Allan how horrible!" she whispered. "It was all my fault for having been so headstrong, for having insisted on a look at them! Forgive me!" "S-h!" he cautioned again. "No matter about that.
I want to git in. As she sat down beside me she said, with the air of one who has done a good deed, 'I hadn't orter 'a' let you git a ticket for me, but I didn't feel so squeamy till I got right here. Seems safe enough though, don't it? Miss Ross assured her of its safety, and I told her how thoroughly it had been tested, but suddenly she broke in upon my speech: 'S-h!
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