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The frightful prospect added nothing to the hopes of those who had so
fearful a stake in the result. Although the day was beginning to dawn,
the vivid colours of the sky continued to deepen, as if the fierce
element were bent on an impious rivalry of the light of the sun.
Bright flashes of flame shot up here and there, along the margin of
the waste, like the nimble coruscations of the North, but far more
angry and threatening in their colour and changes. The anxiety on the
rigid features of the trapper sensibly deepened, as he leisurely
traced these evidences of a conflagration, which spread in a broad
belt about their place of refuge, until he had encircled the whole
horizon.
Shaking his head, as he again turned his face to the point where the
danger seemed nighest and most rapidly approaching, the old man said--
"Now have we been cheating ourselves with the belief, that we had
thrown these Tetons from our trail, while here is proof enough that
they not only know where we lie, but that they intend to smoke us out,
like so many skulking beasts of prey.


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