Despard, the Spy: Or, The Fall of Montreal — page 59: what you’re looking at

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THH. GILENT .STREBT. a ed do; any more for, Mariot Dujardin; let him he eure of that.” Oy The men, took the wounded wretch in their arma ands -ear- ried him away. Despard sprung forward, lifted: the poor: old woman in his arms, and carried her to a couch on one: side of the apartment; .She.revived in a: moment, and lifting her swolten, and. discolored. hands, burst iato tears, “ Faithful creature,” said eo “ how you have suffered. Why, was it done?” . : . “ They might have cut me. tbe pieces and I would never have told them where the young American, wae concealed. You came in time.” »“t, You shall, have your revenge for thie, Anneite,,, -Fibave cléured the house of the villains. _ I must see Witton.” ae are rs a ies cee Tam night caine; and eucli a night ‘ag spies: ‘Silk which . fo. do-their work. As the darkness fell; Despard and Wilton stole out of the house together from the door in‘the rear, slipped over the wall, and stood ‘in the next. street; “That night-tiiey had: determined upon a, perilous act. Began apa vices’ had Warned them that tlie Governor and his £ Secretary tliat’ might: Jeft the castle: for’ the outer lines, and’ ‘that the Secretary.-bore upon his, person. papers’ which: gave a list of the entire force of the French, under the Secretary's own hand. To possess these papers at alt Hazards, was, tlie pur- pose of the two; mem. . These in their hands, nothing: need delay the advance of the aor hoo wah TOW nee ™ ane gil 1pon ptoany Sota No one been better, ‘thew Dospard how to elude the guards, for in his walk that-morn- ing he had passed over the very ground they ‘were. now tra- versing, and had noted ihe disposition of the nien:: Me had COMIC IOOKSaEO