[The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail by Ralph Connor]@TWC D-Link bookThe Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail CHAPTER XIV 20/30
Will that do? Good-night." And before Moira could make reply she was sound asleep. Before the night was over the opportunity was given the doctor to prove his manhood, and in a truly spectacular manner.
For shortly after midnight Moira found herself sitting bolt upright, wide-awake and clutching her sister-in-law in wild terror.
Outside their tent the night was hideous with discordant noises, yells, whoops, cries, mingled with the beating of tom-toms.
Terrified and trembling, the two girls sprang to the door, and, lifting the flap, peered out.
It was the party of braves returning from the great powwow so rudely interrupted by Cameron. They were returning in an evil mood, too, for they were enraged at the arrest of Eagle Feather and three accomplices in his crime, disappointed in the interruption of their sun dance and its attendant joys of feast and song, and furious at what appeared to them to be the overthrow of the great adventure for which they had been preparing and planning for the past two months.
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