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At length, still heavy with dreamless slumber, he was aware of the stealthy turning of a key in a lock. Little padding foot-falls, soft as those of some strong, yet dainty, cat-creature crossed the carpet. A whisper of silk came along with them, like the murmur of the breeze in an oak grove on a clear, hot, summer noon, or the sibilant ripple of the sea upon spaces of fine-ribbed, yellow sand.
With the rifle he got nothing, although he fired at half a dozen different deer, and, once, at a huge cat-creature with a long tail which he was certain was a mountain lion. Despite the way he grumbled at himself, Saxon could see the keen joy he was taking. This belated arousal of the hunting instinct seemed to make almost another man of him.
At any rate, when the terrible day came the first of many terrible days with the news that the British army was driven back they stared at each other in blank dismay. "It it can't be true," gasped Nan, taking a brief refuge in temporary incredulity. "I felt that there was to be bad news today," said Susan, "for that cat-creature turned into Mr.
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