The Yankee Champion — page 111: what you’re looking at

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104 THE YANKEE CHAMPION. Ves.’ “And what do you suppose that was for, if it wasn’t for some traitor?”’ ‘“Egad! I b’lieve Wimper’s right,’ uttered Dow, as he knocked the ashes from his pipe. - ‘IT hope he ain’t dead,”’ fell from Ryan’s lips. “IT tell you, Silas Ryan, it’s past hoping for,’’ said ~“Wimper. ‘‘Mason put his head into a den of_ rattle- snakes, and he has waked some of them up before this time.”’ ‘“Well, perhaps it is so,’’ reluctantly admitted Ryan. ‘But the privateer may be taken yet. The English captain told me he should cruise along the coast till after the store-ships and their convoy had got in; and he may yet fall in with the brig.”’ “That’s a faint hope, though it Tey be realized,’’ said Baxter. ‘But it won’t bring Mason to life, nor remove from us the imputation of treachery,’’ muttered the half- breed. ‘Treachery !’’ repeated Ryan. ‘Yes,’ returned Wimper. ‘‘Some of those prison- ers will ere long find means to communicate with the commander-in-chief, and they’ll tell him that. their brig was taken from them through the means of a secret signal’ and countersign that was alone given to us.”’ Silas Ryan clutched his hands together in nervous agitation. ‘“Now, what answer shall we make when we are interrogated?” continued Wimper. ‘‘Hgad, we shall tell him ’twas Ryan’s boy,’’ re- plied Dow. ‘“Yes,’’ resumed Wimper; ‘‘and furthermore, that that boy knows all our secrets—that he has not only oY, by 6 PK mes ae 2 eee Aa ~~ a F 2 . “comicbooks co