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Updated: June 10, 2025
Thus, a terrible impression steals upon and overshadows her that from this pursuer, living or dead obdurate and imperturbable before her in his well-remembered shape, or not more obdurate and imperturbable in his coffin-bed there is no escape but in death. Hunted, she flies.
He followed it, watched it, and became more and more interested in the unvarying monotony of it. There were the same up-and-down strokes of the long pole, the slight swaying of the upstanding body, the same eddy behind the cedar logs and occasionally wisps of smoke floating behind when the pursuer smoked his pipe. Not once did Peter see Breault turn his head to look behind him.
Watching on the outside while Chip was working Cook, he had spotted and shadowed the two men as they came down the road. The careless exposure of his face to Cummings through the window was the cause of the latter's sudden attempt to catch him. His nimble heels again stood him in good stead, and in the darkness he easily eluded his pursuer.
Then there was a shadow-pantomime, where immaterial roisterers "played Injun," and went through the horrid details of scalping and murders, with grotesque concomitant circumstances, such as the terrifying ricochet effects on an unsophisticated red-man of riving a buzz-wig from the head of his victim in lieu of a real scalp, and the consequent sudden exchange of the characters of pursued and pursuer, all of which, oddly enough, the people who stood in imminent danger of a horrible fate thought very funny indeed.
Every sound startled and alarmed him; every pedestrian looked like a pursuer in plain clothes or blue. A couple of policemen eyed him sharply and he trembled in his boots. The sudden, overpowering recollection that he had the passage tickets in his pockets with the reservations and the luggage checks almost sent him flying through the air, so swift was his pace.
And on the other hand, the wild animals whose wildness can never be tamed, whose inmost principle of existence it is to be apart and unapproachable, those creatures who may be said to cease to be when they cease to be intractable, seem, after they have eluded their pursuer to the utmost, or fought him to the death, to yield themselves to him with a sort of wild contentment as if they were glad to admit the sovereignty of man, though death come with the admission.
Her pursuer was in as evil case; his trousers displayed a tendency to fringedness at pocket and heel; his coat, blowing open as he ran, threw pennants of torn lining to the breeze, and made it too plain that there were but three buttons on his waistcoat.
My plan was to strike out over the prairie in a southerly direction, and by traveling without cessation, endeavor to put a wide gap between pursuer and pursued, and thus be enabled to reach in safety some of the Mexican frontier towns. I was certain that this plan was feasible, from the conversation I had heard from time to time among the warriors of our band.
The moment his vessel was hidden by the rain, Hull quickly made sail again. When the weather cleared, his nearest pursuer was far astern. At daylight the next morning, the British fleet was almost out of sight, and, after a chase of three nights and two days, gave up the contest.
The next few moments were of vital importance to both pursued and pursuer. Enoch's plunge into the water had driven Halpen to paddle away from the shore. Now he was heading the craft across the cove and therefore toward the station of the sentinel. If he pursued this course for many rods he would be within rifle shot.
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