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demanded Billy . `` If you do not , I will . Where do you meet ? '' `` He will be at Bays 's house to-morrow noon , and we will go up to my cleared eighty , half a mile north . There we will step off a course of two hundred yards and fire . Whatever happens we will say was the result of a hunting accident . '' Billy determined to be in hiding near the field of battle , and was secreted in the forest adjoining the cleared eighty an hour before noon next day .