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The Scouts of the Valley

CHAPTER XIII
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He saw by the faint light of the moon that she was not yet asleep.

Her face, worn and weather beaten, was upturned to the skies, and the stony look of despair seemed to have settled there forever.

She lay upon some pine boughs, and her hands were tied behind her for the night with deerskin.
Henry contorted himself on, inch by inch, for all the world like a great snake.

Now he passed the sleeping Senecas, hideous with war paint, and came closer to the woman.

She was not paying attention to anything about her, but was merely looking up at the pale, cold stars, as if everything in the world had ceased for her.
Henry crept a little nearer.


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