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Westways

CHAPTER III
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Next morning the Indians came on.

She fired first, and she cried out, 'Oh! James, I've killed a man.'" "She said that ?" asked Rivers.
"Yes, and she wouldn't shoot again until her man was wounded, then she was like a raging lioness." "A lioness!" echoed Rivers.
"By evening, help came." "How did you know all this ?" "Oh! Leila told me some--and the rest--well, sir, I saw it.

I've been here often." The rector studied the excited young face.

"Would you like to have been there, Jack ?" "No." "Why not ?" "I should have been afraid, and--" Then quickly, "I suppose he was; she was; any one would have been." "Like as not.

He for her, most of all.


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