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Updated: May 18, 2025
"Who are you? What do you mean prowling around this time of the night?" "I'm Luke Larue, of the Simms's outfit, and I want to see you." "Oh, hello, Luke. Thought there was something familiar about your voice. I'll be down in a minute. Anybody with you?" "Yes, friend. Hurry up." Cavanagh opened the front door, peering out suspiciously before he permitted his caller to enter. "Wait a minute.
I have four prisoners in here, and not a mouthful of food will they get, not a sup of water, as long as you fellows are prowling around. I mean what I say, Jeffries, and you know it. For your own good I warn you to get out of this. I'll shoot the first man that enters the mill."
Smoke was still curling up from the charred beams and rafters of the cottages, and the destruction had evidently taken place but the day before. The bodies of several men and women lay scattered among the houses; two or three dogs were prowling about, and these growled angrily at the intruder, and would have attacked him had he not flourished a club which he had cut in the woods for self defence.
White peaks and snow-fields were wrapped in deathly silence: there was not even the howl of a prowling wolf or the splash of falling water. Rising at dawn, almost too cold to move, he could find no dry wood to make a fire and had serious trouble in getting on his frozen boots; and after a hurried meal he set out again.
"And I'll get the water." "Yes, sir!" said Fred, quite distinctly. "No, sir!" said Miss Forbes, with equal distinctness. "I'm not going to be left here alone with all these trees. I'm going with you." "There may be a dog," suggested the young man, "or, I was thinking if they heard me prowling about, they might take a shot just for luck. Why don't you go back to the car with Fred?"
Tom pressed the old man. Reuben Hinman groaned, but did not take to sobbing again. "I woke up to-night, and found it gone," he answered. "Did you feel or hear anyone prowling about, or searching your clothing?" "No; if I had discovered anyone robbing me," shivered the peddler, "I would have caught and held on to him. I have strong hands. I have strong hands. Do you see?"
It was shortly after midnight that Ned was awakened by hearing someone prowling about his room. At first he thought it was Tom, for the shorter way to the bath lay through Ned's apartment, but when the lad caught the flash of a pocket electric torch he knew it could not be Tom. "Who's there?" cried Ned sharply, sitting up in bed. Instantly the light went out, and there was silence.
It is so hard for her to be with strange people; but I, who was so long prowling the streets like a little wild beast that everybody ran away from; yes, I ought to be content, and so grateful. But but, I should like it so much if they would only let me come and see her once in a while. It's so hard, and so lonesome without that."
Much to his amazement he struck a pair of broad, muscular shoulders instead of the slender shoulders of his chum and felt himself in the grasp of a pair of powerful hands. "What are you prowling around in the night for?" was asked. Sandy pulled away at the hand which was smothering him and taking the hint, his captor released him for a moment.
A dog, as I have often seen, is certain to be misled and duped, and there is little doubt that a mink, skunk, racoon, fox, coyote, or wolf would fare no better. Imagine the effects of the bird's tactics on a prowling fox: he has scented her as she sits; he is almost upon her, but she has been watching him, and suddenly, with a loud 'whirr, she springs up and tumbles a few yards before him.
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