Under Fire: A Tale of the Shenandoah Valley — page 51: what you’re looking at

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44 LOVE’S SACRIFICE, stepped from one of the rooms, pausing to bid some one nct visible good-night. As he turned away, Royal came face to face with hin. ‘‘Captain Trafton!’’ he exclaimed. The words were hardly out of his mouth when Moses Bluff, with a wild cry, brushed by him and seized the man by the arms. But T'rafton had taken instant alarm, and endeav- ored to regain the room he had just quitted. The result was that in the scramble that ensued both men fell to the floor. 3 Moses had but one purpose in view now that he had the man he wanted in his grasp. He had no weapons about him, but a pair of strong hands upon a man’s windpipe are apt to prove quite as effective in a close struggle. The captain was no match for this avenger of a sister’s wrong, but he was better prepared, inasmuch as he carried a pistol in his coat-pocket. The noise of the affray quickly drew others to the scene; but before any one could interfere, or Royal Chetwood suspect his object, Trafton drew his re- volver and discharged it in the breast of his assailant. Moses relinquished his desperate hold with a groan aud fell over upon the carpet, while the captain sprang to his feet and dashed rapidly down stairs. ne rere ere ee) CHAPTER VIII. LOVE’S SACRIFICE. Amid the excitement that ensued Chetwood ‘raised his friend’s head on his knee and begged some, one to run for a doctor. | Mose was unconscious, and bled copiously from the wound inflicted by the bullet, GEomicbooks ico