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As Ellen issued from beneath the folds of the
tent, she advanced with a light and fearless step to her former giddy
stand, and pointed toward the prairie, appearing to speak in an eager
and rapid voice to some invisible auditor.
"Nell is mad!" said Asa, half in contempt and yet not a little in
concern. "The girl is dreaming with her eyes open; and thinks she sees
some of them fierce creatur's, with hard names, with which the Doctor
fills her ears."
"Can it be, the child has found a scout of the Siouxes?" said Ishmael,
bending his look toward the plain; but a low, significant whisper from
Abiram drew his eyes quickly upward again, where they were turned just
in time to perceive that the cloth of the tent was agitated by a
motion very evidently different from the quivering occasioned by the
wind. "Let her, if she dare!" the squatter muttered in his teeth.
"Abiram; they know my temper too well to play the prank with me!"
"Look for yourself! if the curtain is not lifted, I can see no better
than the owl by daylight.


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