AN UNSEEN ENEMY. 
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" ' So did I.' 
" ' It was placed across two flat, mossy rocks, and in it 
was the body of a young squaw — ' 
" Before John had time to say, ^ So it was ! ' (as I've 
no doubt his dream was exactly the same as mine) we 
were called to hold the sick man, who was now quite out 
of his head, and muttering strange things that nobody 
but John and I understood. 
u He grew quieter after a while, and slept. The other 
gentleman, worried and troubled as he was, took his 
rifle and started round the shore of the lake for game. 
Before long I heard the crack of his piece, and not a 
minute later a doe dashed past the camp. 
" Her tongue was out, and I could see that she was 
wounded ; but she w^as out of sight with three bounds. 
As she went past us she half turned her head, and gave 
me one swift look from her big, frightened eyes. I'm an 
old hunter, sir, but I declare to you I never had a deer 
nor a living animal look at me so before. I found a 
single red spot on a green leaf in her tracks, after she had 
gone. ■ 
This was at about noon. The master came back 
more tired and anxious than ever. As soon as dinner 
was over, he wanted me to go and hunt up that doe. 
" Generally, I'd want no better job, for I knew by the 
way she ran that she was shot to death, and I wouldn't 
have to go far. But, sir, I hated to go. I'd have taken 
John, but he said he must stay in camp and gum that 
