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And I firmly believed it, knowing how savagely our two servants would account for themselves. I think she agreed with me. An ominous silence lay about us. I felt sure that the scoundrels were crawling up along the ditch, and told her this. She nodded. Minutes passed. At one point, about two hundred yards out, there was a spot where the saw-palmettoes and bay bushes thinned to almost nothing.
This was a long, low line of green, indicating a ditch, or slough, edged with saw-palmettoes and bay bushes, that began at some indefinite northwestward point and diagonally crossed the prairie until it passed around our Oasis scarcely more than a hundred feet away.
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