The Yankee Champion — page 154: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

THE YANKEE CHAMPION. 147 arisen she was startled by the sound of heavy foot- steps upon the stairs, which her quick ear told her were Ryan’s, and she also heard the steps of another following him. ‘‘Ha! whatare you doing here?’’ exclaimed Ryan, starting back as his eyes fell upon the pas -like form of the blind girl. ‘Tam seeking my brother,’’ she’ Revlrned: as she arose from her sitting posture. | ‘“Your brother is not here.’’ “Then where is he?”’ “T don’t know. Go and seek him.”’ ‘“Have they killed him? Oh, tell me, father, have they killed him?’’ “Killed him!’’ repeated Ryan. ‘‘No.”’’ “Then tell me where he is.’”’ ‘‘Perhaps he is on some further plan to betray his father again.’ **Father?’’ The word that thus fell from Helen’s lips was but a mere self-murmured whisper, but Silas Ryan caught it, and it made him turn pale. ‘Tell me,’’ continued the blind girl, who knew not that she had been heard, ‘‘what means this fearful] thing here in this chamber?”’ ‘What thing ?’’ : “This dead man by my brother’s bedside.”’ “1 don’t know any better than you do,’’ returned Ryan, who had been regaining his self-possession, and who saw by the incoherency of the girl's ques- “Sions that she had no thought beyond the safety of her brother. ‘‘He’s dead, and that’s all I know about it. Perhaps he died in a fit.’’ “No, no—I felt the blood! the cold, frozen blood 1”" “Then somebody’s Pues him,’’ { Ecomicbooks.co