[The Lady of the Shroud by Bram Stoker]@TWC D-Link bookThe Lady of the Shroud BOOK VI: THE PURSUIT IN THE FOREST 25/152
With bared heads they were crying: "God and the Blue Mountains! God and the Blue Mountains!" I ran down to them as quickly as I could, and began to issue their instructions.
Within a time to be computed by minutes the whole number, organized by sections, had started to scour the neighbouring mountains. At first they had only understood the call to arms for general safety. But when they learned that the daughter of a chief had been captured, they simply went mad.
From something which the messenger first said, but which I could not catch or did not understand, the blow seemed to have for them some sort of personal significance which wrought them to a frenzy. When the bulk of the men had disappeared, I took with me a few of my own men and several of the mountaineers whom I had asked to remain, and together we went to the hidden ravine which I knew.
We found the place empty; but there were unmistakable signs that a party of men had been encamped there for several days.
Some of our men, who were skilled in woodcraft and in signs generally, agreed that there must have been some twenty of them.
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