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Shaw was not timid, as we have said -- he ought rather be accused of the opposite excess; he was not the man, once his resolution was formed, to let anything soever turn him from it. His hesitation was not long; he suddenly rose, and violently stamping his rifle butt on the ground, looked at the two men, while saying in a firm voice, --
"Be frank, my presence here at this hour astonishes you, and you ask yourselves what cause can have brought me."