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But she might not always hide from Aipytos the seed of the god within her; and he in his heart struggling with bitter strain against a grief too great for speech betook him to Pytho that he might ask of the oracle concerning the intolerable woe. But she beneath a thicket's shade put from her silver pitcher and her girdle of scarlet web, and she brought forth a boy in whom was the spirit of God.
"My milk don't seem ter nourish him none," she answered, and the voice which had once been sweet carried a haunting whine of tragedy. Into the lawless tangle of the "laurel-hell" that came down the mountainside to encroach upon the meagre patch reclaimed for human habitation, a man who had crept yard by yard to the thicket's edge drew back at the sight of the older woman.
He stood on the thicket's edge, absently unloading the weapon, scarcely understanding what he had done and what he had not done. A moment later a far hail sounded across the uplands, and against the sky figures moved distantly. "I believe we lunch yonder, do we not, Miles?" "Eight full brace," she commented. "We have five, and an odd cock-pheasant from Black Fells, I suppose.
'Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the green thicket's gloom; Where the wind, ever soft, from the blue heaven blows, And groves are of myrtle, and olive, and rose?
I had confidence in Thoreau's woodcraft, for has not Emerson said: "What others did at distance hear, And guessed within the thicket's gloom, Was shown to this philosopher, And at his bidding seemed to come"? and I resolved to sit there till I should see my bird. I was confident I should know him: a wild, fearless eye, I was sure, a noble bearing, a dweller on the tree-tops. Alas!
In a minute more he would be within their hiding place; and the rifle sight was trying to cover a vital spot, when right behind them at the thicket's edge, it seemed a frightful roar and a furious pounding of hoofs brought them to their feet with a bound.
Scarce has the last hoof-stroke of the Texan horses died away down the valley, when the buzzards forsake their perch upon the bluff, and swoop down to the creek bottom. Simultaneously the wolves grand grey and coyote come sneaking out from the thicket's edge; at first cautiously, soon with bolder front, approaching the abandoned bodies.
The lion is cunning and exceeding fierce. A flank attack, once we were in the thicket, was as much to be expected as a frontal charge. We advanced to the thicket's edge with many precautions. To our relief we found she had left us a definite trail. B. and I kneeling took up positions on either side, our rifles ready. F. and Simba crawled by inches eight or ten feet inside the thicket.
A look of vicious craft and malice wholly drove away the searching curiosity which had possessed the old man's features. For a time he plainly planned some work of bitter vengefulness. Then, with shaking head, he evidently abandoned the enticing thought. "Too resky," he concluded, and edged a little nearer to the thicket's edge. "Might stir up old " He paused suddenly, alert and keenly listening.
Scratched, laced raw by the whip of branches, they stood in a small hollow with the drift of leaves high about their ankles. And the Hunter pulled into place the portions of growth they had dislodged in their passage into the thicket's heart. Through gaps they could see the opening where lay the body of the water-cat. The wail was cut off short, that cessation in itself a warning.
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