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Eft to fold the blanket close round the sleeper, and cast a little more
wood on the fire, when she too sank down exhausted. The Indian had till
now borne the pangs of hunger with courage and patience, but the morsel
of food--the taste of blood, seemed to work like intoxication upon him.
As his sickness passed away, his eyes glowed in their deep sockets, with
a fierce and unnatural brightness. His cheeks were withered up, and his
black parched lips drawn back, exposed his teeth in a horrible grin.
Possessed with a momentary strength, he raised himself on his hands and
knees, and, grasping an axe, moved stealthily towards the sleeper, madly
thirsting for his blood. Atawa saw him coming, and guessed his terrible
intent; she shook Meynell faintly, and called to him to awake. He slowly
opened his eyes, and thought it but a horrid dream, when he saw the wild
glaring eyes of the savage fixed upon him, and the gaunt arm upraised to
strike, while Atawa feebly tried to hold it back. The blow descended the
next moment, but the generous girl, unable to restrain the maniac's
force, threw herself in the way, and fell stricken senseless on the
snow. Her efforts had happily turned the edge of the axe, and she was
only stunned, not wounded. Meynell seized the Indian by the throat; they
struggled to their feet, and grappled closely together: the madman's
furious excitement lent him force for a time to meet the greatly
superior strength of his opponent but he failed rapidly, his grasp
relaxed, his eyes closed; Meynell, mustering all his remaining energies,
threw him back with violence, and then, utterly exhausted in the
struggle, fell himself also fainting to the ground. When he began to
recover, the dim morning light was reflected from the snowy waste, the
fire was nearly burnt down, and the intensity of the cold ha