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The young men brooded over
the absence of their elder brother, and the brows of Ishmael himself
were knit, as he cast his scowling eyes from one to the other, like a
man preparing to meet and to repel an expected assault on his
authority. In the midst of this family distrust, Ellen and her
midnight confederate, the naturalist, took their usual places among
the children, without awakening suspicion or exciting comment. The
only apparent fruits of the adventure in which they had been engaged,
were occasional upliftings of the eyes, on the part of the Doctor,
which were mistaken by the observers for some of his scientific
contemplations of the heavens, but which, in reality, were no other
than furtive glances at the fluttering walls of the proscribed tent.
At length the squatter, who had waited in vain for some more decided
manifestation of the expected rising among his sons, resolved to make
a demonstration of his own intentions.
"Asa shall account to me for this undutiful conduct!" he observed.


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