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me my blanket there, and roll those two logs on to ■ 

 the fire, and we will go to sleej^. In the morn- 

 ing we will hold a council, and decide what to 

 do. If there is any truth in the old story, you and 

 I might as well find it out." 



John did as he was requested, and, coming 

 round to where I stood, we wrapped ourselves in 

 our blankets, and side by side, with Eover at our 

 feet, prepared ourselves for slumber. " What 's 

 that ? " I exclaimed, as a sharp, quick cry, fol- 

 lowed by a prolonged howl, came up from the 

 depth of the forest. 



"A woE has kiUed a deer," murmured John, 

 " and he is calling in the pack "; and then we slept. 

 The sun was high in the heavens before we 

 awoke. Our sleep had been a heavy, oblivious 

 slumber, which took as it were so many hours 

 clean out of our Hves, — a gap across which was 

 stretched not even the filament of a dream by 

 which the memory could afterward connect the 

 lying down and the rising up. 



" John," said I, when breakfast was ended, " I 

 teU you what we will do to-day. We will explore 

 the rapids and mark us out a course down as far 

 as Phantom Falls, and we wiU lay in wait off our 

 camp to-night, when, if the apparition makes us 

 another visit, we wiU run alongside of that canoe or 

 shadow, whichever it may be, and solve the mys- 

 tery. What say you ? " 



