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The Heritage of the Sioux

CHAPTER XVI
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How then did he know?
For he must have followed, since Ramon dared not come to the place he had named for their meeting.
Dawn came while they were still following the little, brush-choked ravine with its faint pathway up the middle of it, made by cattle or sheep or goats, perhaps all three.

Luis hurried along, stopping now and then and holding up a hand for silence so that he might listen.

Fast as he went, Annie-Many-Ponies kept within two long steps of his heels, her plaid shawl drawn smoothly over her black head and folded together under her chin.

Her mouth was set in a straight line, and her chin had the square firmness of the Indian.

Luis, looking back at her curiously, could not even guess at her thoughts, but he thought her too calm and cold for his effervescent nature--though he would have liked to tell her that she was beautiful.


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