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SNOW-BOUND AT EAGLE'S
by Bret Harte
CHAPTER I
Sierran stage-coach towards the summit. The huge, dim bulk of the
upward as if obeying some mysterious impulse from behind, so faint.html">faint
horses ahead. The shadowy trunks of tall trees that seemed to
were the only distinguishable objects. Yet even these were so
some dream of the half-sleeping.html">sleeping passengers; for the thickly-strewn
yielded under the silently-crushing wheels a faint soporific odor
unconsciousness during the long ascent. Suddenly the stage stopped.
three.html">Three of the four passengers inside struggled at once into upright
sleeping, and turned impatiently towards the window.html">window. It seemed to
outside. One of them moved again, and the door opened quickly but
his right.html">right hand suddenly behind him, but as quickly stopped. One of
what had seemed to be a bough projecting from it at right angles
the window.
"Drop that!" said the voice.html">voice.
The man who had moved uttered a short laugh, and returned his hand
shoulders as over a game that was lost. The remaining passenger,
suddenly to the truth, conceived desperate resistance. But without
muzzle of the gun turned spontaneously on him, and he was vaguely
companions.
"Git down," repeated the voice imperatively.
The three passengers descended. Hale, furious, alert, but helpless
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