It's
so dark they can't see you, and I don't think they've had time to
surround us yet. If you do get through and send the message make for
town. Don't try to get back here, because you'd never make it, and if you
did it would do no good. There's no use sacrificing your life along with
ours."
"Well, I'll get there first," said Bert, "and then there'll be plenty of
time to think about whether or not to come back." Needless to say, in his
own mind there was little doubt that if it lay in his power he would
return and fight, and if need be die at his comrades' side.
CHAPTER X
In Fearful Extremity
With the stealthy tread of a panther, Bert climbed over the improvised
rampart, and a few seconds later his form merged into the enveloping
darkness and was lost to the view of his anxious friends. They listened
with straining ears for any sound of shot or struggle, but the deep
silence of a prairie night remained unbroken.
Bert pursued his way swiftly, but at the same time he exercised all the
knowledge that a life of adventure had given him to detect with ear or
eye the presence of a lurking enemy.
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