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"He will ask for neither:--he wants neither," returned the girl; "if
he be an honest man, he will surely be content with his own, and ask
for nothing that is the property of another."
The trapper had not time to express the surprise he felt at this
incoherent and contradictory language, for the man who was advancing,
was, already, within fifty feet of the place where they stood.--In the
mean time, Hector had not been an indifferent witness of what was
passing. At the sound of the distant footsteps, he had arisen, from
his warm bed at the feet of his master; and now, as the stranger
appeared in open view, he stalked slowly towards him, crouching to the
earth like a panther about to take his leap.
"Call in your dog," said a firm, deep, manly voice, in tones of
friendship, rather than of menace; "I love a hound, and should be
sorry to do an injury to the animal."
"You hear what is said about you, pup?" the trapper answered; "come
hither, fool. His growl and his bark are all that is left him now; you
may come on, friend; the hound is toothless.


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