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Updated: May 12, 2025
The Murmuring Pine. There was no clear-cut trail between the camp and the settlement. The settlement lay four miles northeast and there were little-used, needle-covered roads to be found that led here, there and everywhere, over which the initiated could find the way to the store. But Lydia and Kent did not want to use the roads.
There was a faint rustle as, helped by the bend given to the upper part of the trunk, the rope left his hand and fell amongst the needle-covered boughs, and then, closing the window, the lad, panting more from excitement than exertion, crept to the door and listened till, making sure that he heard Waller's step below, he rushed to the bed, dragged down the clothes, sprang in, drew them up to his chin, and then, with his face to the wall, lay with closed eyes, striving hard to subdue the heaving of his breast.
Big Aleck was able to do more than move. He raised one hand, feebly, imploring mercy. "Come out, damn you!" said Sim Gage, his hand at the dollar of the crippled man. He dragged his prisoner out into the light and threw him full length, mercilessly upon the needle-covered sand. The crippled man began to weep, to beg. It was small mercy he saw as he looked from face to face.
He stared for a moment motionless, and then very carefully clambered down branch by branch to the soft needle-covered ground below. "Good business," he said, looking up at the bent and tilted kite-wings above. "I dropped soft!" He rubbed his chin with his hand and meditated. "Blowed if I don't think I'm a rather lucky fellow!" he said, surveying the pleasant sun-bespattered ground under the trees.
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