Tip Top Weekly No. 61: Frank Merriwell in the Mines — page 28: what you’re looking at

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26. a". , * FRANK MERRIWELL IN THE MINES. fine clothes. She left her poor old daddy | | good chance to litness a winching—I and went away with him; but she caime mean witness a lynching.”? back. one night—one terrible night. : How the wind howled! She came back | Bowers deserves,’? came coldly from to die!—I wonder where it is,’’ he mut-| Jack. tered, feebly feeling in his pockets. “I| “Mah gracious!’ gurgled Toots. must find it again. I don't know why I “Dis coon nebber see no such places fo’ want to find it for she is dead, but still I| ruinpuses as ar am out in dis country— fee! that I must.’ 0, sar!?? _ Frank started back, horror written = In avery short time the boys were his face. mounted on their bicycles and following ‘The man is mad!’ he whispered. Frank Merriwell toward the cabin. of North gave him no further attention, John North. but continued to wander about, gazing at the ground and muttering incoherently. - “His brain is turned at last!’? came CHAPTER X. sadly from the boy. “This last blow has; TH LIGHT IN THE WINDOW AGAIN. completed the overthrow of his reason.”’ | bane ae Bn wed Set tha ik, es the blind girl stumbled and fell upon town what had happened. her face in the trail. Pg merpearmmn aE. - Powers must be pursued, and Little As the man caught her up, she uttered Blossom should be taken from hirn. 0/3 ee oie of despair and terror. time should ‘be lost in this. mn Shut up!’ he brutally commanded. Frank’s wheel lay on the pround, | ‘*What’s the use to raisesuch a row! Tam going to take you where you will hear all it up, vaulted into the saddle. {the pretty music you like, and have good. ‘ Back to Silver Bluff flew the boy. things to eat and wear. That’s all your: where it had fallen. He ran to it, picked |& _ Ben Boze was the first person he met on kind ever cared for anyway.’? entering the town, and he stopped long! ‘I want to go back to. my gran ‘pal? enough to tell the big bullwhacker what ‘cried the child. had happened. “Well, you won’t go ‘back to him any ‘the ornery varmint!’? shouted Boze. more. Shut up your howling!’ ey] hev a gang arter him in less than! ‘When the child coutinued to scream,. two shakes 0’ a inuel’s hind hoof! ‘Hehe tried to frighten her into silence, but. did not succeed, so he roughly covered han’t tot _ jong € tote ther Httle gah en —not by al mouth with his broad hand; which “Then Frank hastened on to the hotel. | ‘he held there till she lay limp and white 3 } ‘and passive in his arms. where he found the boys, who were won-| P dering where he had gone. When he had told them what had|8toWled. taken place, they were greatly excited. | Swiftly he climbed over some. rocks Wel] hav e to follow the ruffian and land made his way from the path to the take. her from him!” wildly declared lvicinity of the regular trail that ran Browning. ‘‘I don’t know how I am go- down into Silver Bluff : ing to do it, for I’ve scarcely been able to| Near the trail a horse was hitched. crawl since. ‘that: meal I ate last night, The horse was saddled and bridled, and but Iam ready to do everything I can.” _ “Get your wheels, boys!?’ cried Frank. | the animal and get into the saddle, aided. “We will ride to the cabin without de-| by a bowlder. lay. Bozeis getting upa party of citi-| With the limp and apparently lifeless, zens to take the trail, and we must be/child in his arms, he rode out. upon. the with them.” i trail. The blind eyes were closed, and “(Or ahead of them,’ nodded Diamond. ;the wind toyed softly with the yellow “Say,” cried Harry, ‘if the men of! ‘curls. ‘‘And that will be the sort of justice Powers soon overtook Little Blossom,,. ‘“Now perhaps you will keep still! he it did not take Powers long to. unhitch this town overtake Powers, we'll have al “Good -by Silver Bluff!’ cried Fevle COMMCDoOOkS.E€O