. The great quest; a romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea . eanwhile, you must understand, the yelling and hoot- 244 THE GREAT QUEST ing had first grown loud and near, then had drawn slowlyfarther away. It was not easy to let that creature, be itanimal or human, come crawling up the hill in the fulllight of the moon. As the cries died in the distance, thething moved faster and with less concealment, and Ifiercely whispered, Shoot, Arnold, shoot! Wait, he replied and lifted a rest
. The great quest; a romance of 1826, wherein are recorded the experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of those others with whom he sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea . eanwhile, you must understand, the yelling and hoot- 244 THE GREAT QUEST ing had first grown loud and near, then had drawn slowlyfarther away. It was not easy to let that creature, be itanimal or human, come crawling up the hill in the fulllight of the moon. As the cries died in the distance, thething moved faster and with less concealment, and Ifiercely whispered, Shoot, Arnold, shoot! Wait, he replied and lifted a restraining hand. At the moment I could not understand why he did notdo as I said ; but as the thing came out into open ground,the same thought that had caused the two to hold theirfire occurred likewise to me; and now we saw that we wereright. The thing crawling up the hill was a man, and when theman came into the open clearing directly in front of ourcamp, we saw that it was Matterson. Without a word, followed closely by OHara, who laidhis gun on the threshold, I leaped out past Arnold and randown to Matterson and helped him to his feet and led himgroaning up to the VIFOR OUR VERY LIVES
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