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| �An Excerpt from The Promise: | |||||||||||||
| �Sara growled low in her throat. Her head was down and the hair on her back stood up on end. | |||||||||||||
| "Easy, girl," I told her. "If we just stay still, maybe it'll go back the way it came." | |||||||||||||
| The bear sniffed the air and gave out another grunt. Then it dropped to all fours. | |||||||||||||
| Sara broke free of my grip and lunged. She charged across the clearing and challenged the bear again, growling and snarling in its face. | |||||||||||||
| "Sara! Get back here now!" I shouted, but Sara paid no heed. The bear eyed her stupidly for a while, just swaying slowly side to side as if wondering what to make of her. She charged in close, and the bear tossed its head and growled low and threateningly. | |||||||||||||
| "Sara, come back!" I shouted again. | |||||||||||||
| Sara trotted back to me at last, but it was too late. She'd gone and got the bear all riled up. It was loping across the clearing straight toward us! | |||||||||||||
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