The Prairie Detective — page 161: what you’re looking at

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152 THE PRAIRIE DETECTIVE. They came, scarcely louder than a whisper, but so distinct that they were graven upon the hearts of his hearers for years afterward: “The perrairie is afire on every side.. We are trapped in a livin’ wall o’ flame.”’ There was a moment of dreadful silence. Then Dan spoke. ‘“‘God help us, then,”’ the said, ‘‘for there is no es- cape.”’ comichboo cS (Efe) mM ~