The Yankee Champion — page 156: what you’re looking at

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THE YANKEE CHAMPION. weve es: | rest sent him up, but I saved him; and I’ve come to Save you.”’ ‘‘And will you carry me where Gideon is?”’ “Yes, that’s what I’ve come for.” “Then may God bless you, Luke—God bless you! You have a kind, a noble heart.’’ ‘Do you really mean to pray for God to bless me, Helen ?”’ “Yes, yes, indeed I do; and I’ll pray for you as long as I live.’’ There was a big tear in the eye of Luke Soper, and his lips quivered with an emotion that was new to his soul. For a moment he half averted his face, as though he feared that even the blind girl might see the thoughts that dwelt there. “They have gone up to bring the body down?” he whispered, at length. ‘Yes, for I heard Dow say something about it.”’ “Then as soon as they go out of the house you must run up to your room and put on your cloak, and get what clothes you want, and then come back here again. I’ll hide so that they won’t see me, and as soon as they get out of sight we’ll start for the woods. Hurry now.”’ Luke Soper hid himself behind a pile of wood in the shed, where he could watch the movements of any one who might Jeave the house; and shortly afterward the back door was again opened, and Ryan and Dow came out. They bore the stiff corpse of Baxter in their arms, and as they entered the shed they laid their burden down upon the very place behind which Luke had taken shelter. He trembled with fear, for he thought that perhaps they meant to place the body behind the wood till — gs) ¢€o . GCOomMmIcboo m ) —