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The Shepherd of the Hills

CHAPTER XXIV
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It is the same instinct that prompts the panther to send his mating call ringing over the hills and through the forest, and leads the moose to issue his loud challenge.
At last Young Matt turned to go, when he heard the sound of voices.

Someone was coming along the Old Trail that lay in full view on the mountain side not two hundred yards away.
Instinctively the woodsman drew back into the thick foliage of the cedars.
The voices grew louder.

A moment more and Sammy with Ollie Stewart appeared from around the turn of the hill.

They were walking side by side and talking earnestly.

The young woman had just denied the claims of her former lover, and was explaining the change in her attitude toward him; but the big fellow on the ledge above could not know that.


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