Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 93: what you’re looking at

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ye ee, ' _ -BONNY JEAN. - The morning after her arrival, Lady accidentally discovered in her room a newspaper; it was a recent number, and almost the first paragraph that met her startled eyes in a column of personal items was this: | ‘Mr. J. H. Lee, of the Lee Plantation, has sold his fine place, with all the stock, farming implements, etc., and, with his estimable wife, departed for Europe, yesterday, for an indefinite stay. The old people have never rallied from the shock of the death of their only daughter, Miss Adelaide— a beautiful and accomplished young lady; and they have decided to leave their native land for a time, hoping that change of scene and climate may restore Mrs, Lee’s failing health.’’ Poor Lady! All was lost ! CHAPTER XVIII. A MIDNIGHT On RAE. As Philip turned his eyes a low cry of gratitude escaped his lips, and that strong hope which rarely dies in the human breast sprang up and illumined his path once more. It was an apparently trivial matter that had elicited his gratitude and made fainting hope revive; but Philip had learned enough during his sojourn in the pine woods to feel that it would have a decided influence upon his desperate case. _ Alarge number of hogs, frightened and tormented by dogs— a pack of half-starved, ravenous hounds, bounding with fearful howls after them—had, in their terror and demoralization, rushed down directly to the river's edge; a gaunt, nearly fam- ished cur leaped after the foremost of the pack, and the porker, forgetting in its terror its normal dread of water, sprang wildly into the river, followed by the whole terrified crew. The dull eyes of the alligators glistened greedily. Doubtless they con- sidered it wisest to secure the dainty (?) morsels at once, feeling so certain of their larger prey. With one accord they turned toward the frightened swine and closed around them. There (ee) =) Eomicbooks