Penny Dreadfuls, 1916 · page 140 of 400
Tom Anderson, Dare-Devil: A Young Virginian in the Revolution — page 140: what you’re looking at
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This is a page of running prose from the penny dreadful "Tom Anderson, Dare-Devil" (page 124). The text describes Tom standing with his rifle, lost in thought about a white-haired woman from Oxheart, when a strange voice emerges from the thicket chanting in French. The voice calls out Tom's name—apparently a name only one person in the world uses—prompting Tom to demand to know who is addressing him. The passage creates suspense through the mysterious appearance of this unexpected visitor.
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124 Tom ANDERSON, Dare-DEvIL His rifle rested on the ground. His starry eyes were fixed on vacancy. “Ah, poor Madam! God bless her!”” He was thinking about — not Sarah of Marlborough — but the white-haired mistress of Oxheart. And the unseen eyes that watched him were like a madman’s. And then out of the thicket came a strange, choking voice — chanting hoarsely : — ‘“Mon page, — mon beau page! — Mironton, mtronton, mirontaine! Mon page — mon beau page —! Quelles nouvelles apportez?”’ Tom grasped his rifle and cried, ““Who’s thete?”’ The strange voice called softly, “Tom Calvert?”’ Only one person in the world called him that! “In God’s name, who are you? And what do you want?” Gomichoo cS (E(0) m