Penny Dreadfuls, 1916 · page 366 of 400
Tom Anderson, Dare-Devil: A Young Virginian in the Revolution — page 366: what you’re looking at
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# Page Description This is running prose from page 346 of a Victorian penny dreadful titled *Tom Anderson, Dare-Devil*. The text describes a dramatic rescue scene where three men—Tom, the Marquis de la Jonquière, and Unaka—save the injured and bury the dead. It then introduces Dick Knatchbull, described as a figure under sentence of death who directs rescue efforts from a litter while carried by Caribs and followed by "cannibals." The passage climaxes with the revelation that witnessing Knatchbull's actions inspires three observers to "exchange forgiveness" with him. The prose is melodramatic and sensational in typical penny dreadful fashion.
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346 Tom ANDERSON, DarE-DEVIL the heroic work of rescue — and sepulture. These three ‘“undismayed souls” succored the injured, buried the dead, and went about doing good, with wills that nothing could daunt. They were Tom, the Marquis de la Jon- quiere, and Unaka. ‘‘And neither the angels in Heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea —”’ ‘could have outvied, for tender mercies, for furious en- ergies, that Virginia boy. Upon this terrific stage appeared one epic figure never forgotten by De la Jonquiére, young Anderson, nor the Cherokee, who — himself under sentence of death — was saving the lives of hundreds. Knatchbull, borne on a litter which was carried by some of his Caribs, lighted by others with torches, and fol- lowed by an army of his cannibals, lay — ghastly enough! — among his pillows and directed his black force in the work of rescue. His was the fortitude of some dying gen- eral on the field of defeat. And this revelation of the man awoke | in three of those who witnessed it a willingness to “exchange forgiveness”’ with Dick Knatchbull. ECOMMICOOOKS sO