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In a Hollow of the Hills

CHAPTER VII
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"It's mighty like that earthquake weather before the big shake thet dried up the river and stopped the mill.

That was just the time I got the news o' your bein' dead with yellow fever.

Lord! honey, I allus allowed to myself thet suthin' was happenin' to ye then." She did not reply; but he, holding her figure closer to him, felt it trembling with a nervous expectation.

Suddenly she threw him off, and rose to her feet with a cry.

"There!" she screamed frantically, "they've come! they've come!" A rabbit had run out into the moonlight before them, a gray fox had dashed from the thicket into the wood, but nothing else.
"Who's come ?" said Collinson, staring at her.
"The sheriff and his posse! They're surrounding them now.


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