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"I will not swear to that," returned the trapper; "I have often
thought the eyes of a Red-skin would find a trail in air."
"See, Middleton," exclaimed Inez, in a sudden burst of youthful
pleasure, that caused her for a moment to forget her situation, "how
lovely is that sky; surely it contains a promise of happier times!"
"It is glorious!" returned her husband. "Glorious and heavenly is that
streak of vivid red, and here is a still brighter crimson; rarely have
I seen a richer rising of the sun.
"Rising of the sun!" slowly repeated the old man, lifting his tall
person from its seat with a deliberate arid abstracted air, while he
kept his eye riveted on the changing, and certainly beautiful tints,
that were garnishing the vault of Heaven. "Rising of the sun! I like
not such risings of the sun. Ah's me! the imps have circumvented us
with a vengeance. The prairie is on fire!"
"God in Heaven protect us!" cried Middleton, catching Inez to his
bosom, under the instant impression of the imminence of their danger.


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