Caught in the Snare — page 163: what you’re looking at

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150 Next Morning. ee re ee St eee a “And what followed next?” “T went home and went into bed,” continued _ Eddy, “until | heard them singing out ‘fre,’ and th then I got up and went to the bluff, and the barn ; ° was burning. | saw the man in the crowd but I was afraid to speak to him, he seemed so wild- ny ii like. When the barn was all burned down the Le ih people went away, and I saw him go off into the ms ie woods, and that’s all I know.” th | “Merciful Heaven!” exclaimed Nugent, reel- ne ing back as though stunned by a heavy blow, ) “Edith is murdered!” r€ “And Fred Stanley is her murderer,” said the 7 a , ; h: major, in a voice so deep and unearthly that it i seemed to issue from the jaws of death. ; i “It cannot be! Itcannot be! It is monstrous! » ee Impossible! Absurd!” exclaimed Nugent, in “ Le wild excitement. “Fred Stanley could never be " an assassin!’ ' “I tell you he has murdered her,” said his ; father, in a tone of concentrated fierceness; “and by the heaven above us his life shall pay for hers. ( An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a life for a life!” he cried, rushing madly from the house. Nugent followed, and feeling the necessity for calmness and firmness, in the dreadful crisis, he laid his hand on his arm and arrested his flying Steps. comicbooks.com