Penny Dreadfuls, 1916 · page 388 of 400
Tom Anderson, Dare-Devil: A Young Virginian in the Revolution — page 388: what you’re looking at
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# Page from Tom Anderson, Dare-Devil This is a page of running prose (page 368) from what appears to be a serialized penny dreadful titled *Tom Anderson, Dare-Devil*. The text depicts a tense dramatic moment: a character reflects on a shooting incident in a dark hall, uncertain whether the shooter recognized their victim. A woman experiences a rush of guilt or suspicion that causes her to blush deeply, and she then faces interrogation from someone named Tarleton, who demands to know the victim's identity. She resists answering his demanding question. The passage emphasizes emotional intensity and melodramatic sensation typical of Victorian popular fiction.
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368 Tom ANDERSON, DarE-DEVIL like ony Lapp!’ Never would he have fired had he rec- ognized his victim! But in that dark hall— could he have lost his “fool head,” as Tom used to say? Could it be? Under the pang of this suspicion, the blood dyed her bare neck and throat. It blazed through and through her — like heat lightning through a summer cloud. And her eyes fell! Tarleton’s tremendous dominance beat upon her will in one look. “Who — was — it?” But she withstood him. COMNMIC JOO cS (E(0)