Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 40: what you’re looking at

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A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE. 83 said the major, breaking the silence. ‘‘He isn’t the first one I’ve pinked.”’ Which was the truth, for Major de Banyan was a ‘noted duelist, and a dead shot. | ‘‘Hark! There’s a horseman coming down the pike. Rouse up, man; we must be off, faith! It —won’t do to be caught here. ‘This woman is stone dead, and will be after bothering you no more. Your — shot found her heart.” The major, who was a man of action, put the body into the carriage, and hustled Captain Trafton in before him. ‘‘Back to the city, you devil!’’ he shouted to the driver, ‘‘and whip up like the old boy!”? The jehu was only too glad to obey. The vehicle whirled quickly about, and was soon tearing down the road like mad. The oncoming horseman had evidently heard the shots, for he had quickened his pace to a dead gallop. He drew rein beside the motionless figure in the road, and dismounted. ‘““By the Lord!’’ he exclaimed, as he turned Royal over on his back, and the moon shone cold upon the marble features, ‘‘there has been murder done here, or my name’s not Moses Blutf!’’ CHAPTER VI. A TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE. The assault on Fort Sumter seems to have been designed by Providence to rouse the patriotic senti- ment of the country to an enthusiastic determination of sustaining the Constitutional Government and its territorial integrity at every hazard and whatever cost. The attack upon the Sixth Massachusetts regiment by a frenzied mob in the streets of Baltimore appealed (e(0} Eomicbooks