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The Forest Runners

CHAPTER IX
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Then their leader stopped, and the others, without a word, stopped with him.
"I think we've shaken 'em off," said Henry, "and we'd better rest and sleep.

Then we can make up our plans." "Good enough," said Shif'less Sol.

"An' ef any man wakes me up afore next week, I'll hev his scalp." He sank down at once in his buckskins on a particularly soft piece of turf, and in an incredibly brief space of time he was sound asleep.

Jim Hart, doubling up his long, thin figure like a jackknife, imitated him, and Paul was not long in following them to slumberland.

Only Henry and Ross remained awake and watchful, and by and by the moonlight came out and silvered their keen and anxious faces..


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