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I fear Nelly and the young
ar' asleep." The young man complied with an alacrity that manifested
how gladly he would see the rounded, active figure of Ellen,
enlivening the ragged summit of the rock. But the report was succeeded
by neither signal nor answer of any sort. For a moment, the whole
party stood in suspense, awaiting the result, and then a simultaneous
impulse caused the whole to let off their pieces at the same instant,
producing a noise which might not fail to reach the ears of all within
so short a distance.
"Ah! there they come at last!" cried Abiram, who was usually among the
first to seize on any circumstance which promised relief from
disagreeable apprehensions.
"It is a petticoat fluttering on the line," said Esther; "I put it
there myself."
"You ar' right; but now she comes; the jade has been taking her
comfort in the tent!"
"It is not so," said Ishmael, whose usually inflexible features were
beginning to manifest the uneasiness he felt. "It is the tent itself
blowing about loosely in the wind.


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