Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 194
e darknessseemed less intense. Lou was unfamiliar with the ground, however, and he stumbled and blun-dered over rock piles and through muddy poolsas he hastened up the river, keeping on the topof the embankment. He was in the bight of thegreat curve —a most likely place for the levee-cutters to… … A VOLCANO OF FLAME SEEMED TO BURSTIN HIS FACE. out; then another. Then the lantern went out,too, and Lou heard the stamp of men gettinginto a boat. Then he knew what it was, and ran impulsivelyforward. The boat was out of sight already,though he could still hear the rapid rattle of hur-ried oars…
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