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Overland

CHAPTER XIII
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One of the inner rooms was assigned to Mrs.Stanley and Clara, and another to Thurstane and Glover.

Bedding, provisions, and some small articles as presents for the Moquis were sent up from the train by Coronado.
But would the wagons, the animals, and the human members of the party below be safe during the night?
Young as he was, and wounded as he was, Thurstane was so badgered by his army habit of incessant responsibility that he could not lie down to rest until he had visited the camp and examined personally into probabilities of attack and means of defence.

As he descended the stony path which scored the side of the butte, his anxiety was greatly increased by the appearance of a party of armed Moquis rushing like deer down the steep slope, as if to repel an attack..


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