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The Young Trailers

CHAPTER IX
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THE ESCAPE Henry and Paul, with their eyes at the crevices, stared and stared, but they saw only those dark, horrible forms lying close to the earth, and heard again the peaceful wind blowing among the peaceful trees.

The savage army had melted away as if it had never been, and the dark objects might have been taken for stones or pieces of wood.
"We beat 'em off, an' nobody on our side has more'n a scratch," exclaimed Shif'less Sol jubilantly.
"That's so," said Ross, casting a critical eye down the line, "it's because we had a good position an' made ready.

There's nothin' like takin' a thing in time.

How're you, boys ?" "All right, but I've been pretty badly scared I can tell you," replied Paul frankly.

"But we are not hurt, are we, Henry ?" "Thank God," murmured the schoolmaster under his breath, and then he said aloud to Ross: "I suppose they'll leave us alone now." Ross shook his head.
"I wish I could say it," he replied, "but I can't.


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