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Drawing the rifle out of the piece of leopard skin with which the lock had been covered, Arend pointed the muzzle upwards and pulled trigger. The gun went off. As the report fainted away in the distance, the far-off sound of a human voice could be heard as if shouted back in answer to the shot. What they heard was the word "Hilloo."
"Yes, dear father! only an hour ago. If you but knew it was he who saved me. But for him Father! he must not he shall not die!" "Saved ye? What do ye mean, gurl?" "Hilloo! what's all this rumpus?" The familiar ejaculation, and its adjunct interrogatory, admonished me that a new personage had appeared upon the scene. The voice came from behind.
They had passed together into that earthly paradise whose gates are still opened to some favoured mortals in this vale of tears. "Hilloo! Hilloo!" It was old Giles's voice, hoarse as a raven's; and although it startled them rudely, it was a welcome sound. Elsie went into the hut to rouse Jamie as gently as she could, and Arnold listened to Giles's explanation of his arrival.
'So there is! roared another; 'Hoo-ray! 'Hoo-ray! yelled two or three more. 'Stop him! cried another. 'Call him in, roared Sir Harry, 'and let's liquor him. 'Hilloo! Mister What's-your-name! exclaimed the other Spangles, throwing up the window. 'Hilloo, won't you come in and have some refreshment? 'Who's there? asked Mr. Sponge, reining in the brown.
After gazing at it for a moment, the Mexican slid down from his horse; and, hobbling towards the hat, took it up. Then uttering a fierce "Carajo," he dashed the "tile" back to the ground, and commenced stamping upon it, as if it had been some venomous serpent he desired to annihilate! "Hilloo! theer, hombre!" shouted Sure-shot. "What the ole scratch air ye abeout?
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