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CHAPTER X. BARBARA CAPTURED BY HEAD-HUNTERS
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WHEN Barbara Harding, with Miller1 before and Swenson behind her, had taken up the march behind the loot-laden party seven dusky, noiseless shadows had emerged from the forest to follow close behind.
For half a mile the party moved along the narrow trail unmolested. Theriere had come back to exchange a half-dozen words with the girl and had again moved forward toward the head of the column. Miller was not more than twenty-five feet behind the first man ahead of him, and Miss Harding and Swenson followed at intervals3 of but three or four yards.
Suddenly, without warning, Swenson and Miller fell, pierced with savage4 spears, and at the same instant sinewy5 fingers gripped Barbara Harding, and a silencing hand was clapped over her mouth. There had been no sound above the muffled6 tread of the seamen7. It had all been accomplished8 so quickly and so easily that the girl did not comprehend what had befallen her for several minutes.
In the darkness of the forest she could not clearly distinguish the forms or features of her abductors, though she reasoned, as was only natural, that Skipper Simms' party had become aware of the plot against them and had taken this means of thwarting9 a part of it; but when her captors turned directly into the mazes10 of the jungle, away from the coast, she began first to wonder and then to doubt, so that presently when a small clearing let the moonlight full upon them she was not surprised to discover that none of the members of the Halfmoon's company was among her guard.
Barbara Harding had not circled the globe half a dozen times for nothing. There were few races or nations with whose history, past and present, she was not fairly familiar, and so the sight that greeted her eyes was well suited to fill her with
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