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To-morrow we'll have a chat on things in general." "I say," asked Robin that night, as he and Sam stood star-gazing together beside a small fire which had been kindled outside the cavern-mouth for cooking purposes, "is it true that you have studied all the subjects you mentioned to Johnson this morning?" "Quite true.
"This is an old schoolfellow of mine," he said, turning to Kate, who was looking haughtily at the girl. "Oh! is it?" said Kate, condescending. Between the two, each looking ghostly to the other, lay a dark cavern-mouth that seemed to go down to Hades. "Wonna ye gang doon, mem?" said Annie. "No, thank you," answered Kate, decisively. "Alec'll tak' guid care o' ye, mem."
To his departing steps Rudolph listened as a prisoner, condemned, might listen to the last of all earthly visitors. Peering through a kind of butler's window, he saw beyond the shrine his two pallid subordinates, like mystic automatons, nodding and smoking by the doorway. Beyond them, across a darker square like a cavern-mouth, flitted the living phantoms of the street.
There, a couple of hundred yards away, was the canoe they had followed, while at various distances farther on no less than six more small canoes were dotted about, their feather-crowned crews all busily employed fishing, while as the boats glided round the tree-covered rocks the nearest Indians struck up a soft minor-keyed chant which was taken up by the crews of the other canoes, the whole combining in a sweet low melody which floated over the smoothly-flowing river, fully explaining the sounds heard from the cavern-mouth overnight.
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