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As you may suppose, the youth, by this time, was thoroughly scared, for he was 

 in a perilous position indeed. He cocked his Winchester, and braced himself to 

 receive a charge from some quarter, the feeling being that horrible one that comes 

 over a man when he is absolutely at a loss to know the point whence a crashing 

 blow is to descend. 



Braced thus, Bob glanced around in the impenetrable gloom, hoping tnat the 

 ear, if not the eye, would give him the knowledge on which his life depended. 



Peering in the direction of the camp-fire, he was unable to see anything resem- 

 bling the outlines of an animal, and he could feel no doubt, therefore, that his 

 enemy was on his flank, or what was more likely, directly behind, and creeping 

 upon him. 



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