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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... XXII WE MEET RED DEATH AND BLACK DEATH HE crashing of branches sounded as some heavy body "Did ye hear that screech ?' shouted a rough voice. "Yaas, Red, me hear him. He bery much like feller feel somet'ing he not like." Peter nudged me, and Ta-wan-ne-ars seized the bow and quiver of one of the dead Keepers. We crouched beside the bodies behind the sumac screen. My gun was still where I had left it in the gully by which I had approached the lair of the watchers. In its stead I selected the musket of the man the Seneca had just knifed. "Funny they don't answer us-- 'nless that was an answer we heard," continued the rough voice. "Give 'em another hail in their own lingo.' A third voice was raised--in the Cahnuaga dialect, which was a corruption of the Iroquois speech and perfectly understandable to my comrades. "Qua, 0 Keepers who watch," shouted the third speaker. "We acquaint you that we approach. We have with us the Ked One and the Black One." We remained quiet, but Peter possessed himself of the gun of the second Cahnuaga and placed it where he could reach it as soon as his own piece was discharged. "That's funny, Tom," called the first speaker, who was plainly Bolling. "Yaas, him funny," answered the negro. They were approaching over the trail which forked into the one we had followed from the stream with the pebbly ran along the Doom Trail. banks. And at this point apparently they came to the junction of the two branches. "Hullo," commented Bolling's great voice--he spoke habitually in a roar. "Somebody come by this way." "Mebbe them Keepers go look for us the other way," suggested Tom. "Mought be so, but I ain't figgerin' on takin' no chances with them green arrows. French put the Injuns up to dippin' the points in rattlesnake p'ison, and I seed them try it...
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