[The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey]@TWC D-Link bookThe Spirit of the Border CHAPTER XXVII 19/31
Having endured so much, this last misfortune, apparently the ruin of her life, brought no added suffering, only a strange, numb feeling. "Ah-huh! Thought you'd give me the slip, eh ?" croaked Girty, striding forward, and as he looked at Wingenund his little, yellow eyes flared like flint.
"Does a wolf befriend Girty's captives? Chief you hev led me a hard chase." Wingenund deigned no reply.
He stood as he did so often, still and silent, with folded arms, and a look that was haughty, unresponsive. The Indians came forward into the glade, and one of them quickly bound Jim's hands behind his back.
The savages wore a wild, brutish look.
A feverish ferocity, very near akin to insanity, possessed them.
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