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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The Captive. ARKNESS visited the face of the earth, and silence was supreme in the village, men, women, and children were forgetting the excitement and toil of the day, in the sweet oblivion of sleep, when the door of the chieftain's hut opened gently, and Eachan issued forth. The fires which blazed with so brilliant a lustre in the earlier part of the evening, had utterly subsided into dull red embers, around which the Celtic warriors and their dogs lay, in many instances, buried in sleep. Treading with a light footstep amongst them, hiding within the shadows, passed the boy, with a look of unusual determination upon his features, yet with a caution which sufficiently spoke his sense of the danger of his mission. At last he reached the hut which contained the captive and glanced around him; before the door stood the two sentinels motionless as statues, but seemingly undisturbed by the soft footfall of the son of their chief, who crept like a snakebehind the hut, and lay there in silence for a few moments. He could distinctly hear the breathing of the captive whom he had come to deliver, for, touched by his mother's suppressed agony, and by the helplessness of his father in the emergency, he had determined to take a step so bold, that had he' fully known its extreme danger, he might yet have hesitated. The walls of the hut were but of timber loosely put together, but the safety of the captive did not depend upon them; the ligatures which bound his hands and feet, and secured him to a strong post, driven into the soil beneath the hut, were the means of his safe detention. Hence Eachan knew that if he could but loosen one of the outer planks, he could easily free the prisoner by cutting his bonds, and one of the planks was loose. Silently h...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217317283 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217317286 |
| Weight | 0.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 132 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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