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I crept, wet as I was, into her pine-needled hollow, and started to ask if she were afraid. But the question died at sight of her. She was propped on her elbows, and had parted the low boughs in front of her that she might look out at the storm. She turned at sound of me, and the blood was in her cheeks as I felt it in mine. "Come," she cried with her motion.
It was as though she were skimming through space, so quietly did his moccasined feet press the pine-needled earth, so exquisitely did his young strength save her from any jar. He whistled softly through his teeth as he ran in long, swift strides. And as he did not speak to her, she lay silent, yet strangely peaceful and happy. Hugh was left far behind.
At last he was satisfied, and threw himself down on the soft pine-needled slope that commanded a clear view of the watercourse and a brown, bare hillside beyond it. The trees made a scented darkness in which an army corps could have hidden from the sun-glare without. ''Ere's the tail o' the wood, said Ortheris. ''E's got to come up the watercourse, 'cause it gives 'im cover. We'll lay 'ere.
Polly commanded gayly. "I'll have a red-and-green luncheon for you when you wake up!" She bounded off along the slippery pine-needled path and disappeared behind a curtain of foliage. Miss Sterling awoke with a start where was she? Then the events of the morning flashed into view, and she smiled contentedly. Mrs.
The house that Prosper Gael had built for himself and for the woman whom Joan came to think of as the "tall child," stood in a cañon, a deep, secret fold of the hills, where a cliff stood behind it, and where the pine-needled ground descended before its door, under the far-flung, greenish-brown shade of fir boughs, to the lip of a green lake.
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