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In a Hollow of the Hills

CHAPTER I
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It was followed by the distant sea-like roaring of the mountain-side.
"That's a little more like it!" said the first speaker joyfully.
"Another blow like that and we're all right.

And look! there's a lightenin' up over the trail we came by." There was indeed a faint glow in that direction, like the first suffusion of dawn, permitting the huge shoulder of the mountain along whose flanks they had been journeying to be distinctly seen.

The sodden breath of the stirred forest depths was slightly tainted with an acrid fume.
"That's the match you threw away two hours ago," said the pleasant voice deliberately.

"It's caught the dry brush in the trail round the bend." "Anyhow, it's given us our bearings, boys," said the first speaker, with satisfied accents.

"We're all right now; and the wind's lifting the sky ahead there.


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