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The Spirit of the Border

CHAPTER X
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Here, even in an Indian boy, was incontestable proof that the savage nature could be tamed and civilized.
With a tender exclamation Nell bent over the child and kissed him.
Jonathan Zane swung his canoe up-stream for the purpose of bringing Joe.

The trim little bark slipped out of sight round the bend.
Presently its gray, curved nose peeped from behind the willows; then the canoe swept into view again.

There was only one person in it, and that the guide.
"Where is my brother ?" asked Jim, in amazement.
"Gone," answered Zane, quietly.
"Gone! What do you mean?
Gone?
Perhaps you have missed the spot where you left him." "They're both gone." Nell and Jim gazed at each other with slowly whitening faces.
"Come, I'll take you up to the village," said Zane, getting out of his canoe.

All noticed that he was careful to take his weapons with him.
"Can't you tell us what it means--this disappearance ?" asked Jim, his voice low and anxious.
"They're gone, canoe and all.

I knew Wetzel was going, but I didn't calkilate on the lad.


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