The drowsy valley caught its breath--@
as old Round-top winked back.

Caught its breath with many a waking@
scintilla of light in the pointed flash of
pool and stream!

A momentary, broken arc, a shattered
rainbow dividing the flood of dusk above
from the gulf of darkness below; and
tfoen--and then the triumphant cry in
each gasping throat:

"They Ve got us! They see us! Now
-now for the message: 'Two strange
girls with us. You ...'

But there the Lightning's lore suddenly
gave out, her signaling memory, as the
news was vivaciously transmitted by
staccato dot and lengthier dash, the latter
being the same quarter-circle once described
in a single movement to the right.

Over the valley the message was hung
up. It was hung up in Pem's heart, too,
--and the honor, the fair grace, of boy-
hood with it.@

If old Round-top unhesitatingly played
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