Penny Dreadfuls, 1867 · page 207 of 390
The Boy Soldier; Or, Garibaldi's Young Captain — page 207: what you’re looking at
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- ——-- THE BOY SOLDIER; OR, GARIBALDI’S YOUNG CAPTAIN, = I (Nii a eee S [ a | AKG th a= | 2 ON NG | HAN i } NHUTHITA ; == Gil tae SE é = f ficaele Wow on ————_ ‘‘ Barney captured !” sighed Warner. “Yes, I know it is,” said Gale; “but didn’t Barney tell us that he had made up his mind to search this wing ?”’ “True ; I forgot that,” said old Giles ; ‘but how could a man live for ten days without food ?” “‘ No matter,” said Gale; “ we must try and get into this place one way or the other, if we burst in the old iron doors,’’ “Barney taken, and turned informer,” thought Warner. ‘Oh! the villain } if I only live to get out of this aecursed hole, and have my freedom again, I'll teach the rascal such a lesson he’ll never forget it,” As he thus thought he clenched his fists, and Swore a terrible oath to be revenged on Barney, ““Tf we do burst open the old iron doors, we must get a blacksmith from the village’to help us.” ING.2Gs° ~~ THE BOY SOLDIER AND THE SPY. “Then go you, Giles, and bring one. Tell him we shall want his sledge hammer and several crow- bars to force open these doors,” “‘T shan’t be long,’”’ said Giles. . Warner could faintly hear his receding footsteps along the stone passages. Gale, to amuse himself, began to examine the door with his lantern, whistling as he did so quite carelessly. The faint rays of Gale’s lantern shone through the key-hole and crevices of the gigantic door, and shed a faint light upon the floor. “ Am I to be rescued, then, and hung to the jeers and scoffings of ten thousand people?” thought Warner. ‘No! never!” A sudden idea seemed to strike him. His face was lit up suddenly with rays of hope; he said, between his teeth, (©) fi |