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a ff 1 Pe THE YANKEE CHAMPION. 159 Nixon, as soon as he assured himself that the man whom he sought was not in the room. Dow turned pale as a ghost at the sight of the two > pistols, and as Walter stepped forward and set the lamp upon the table, the Tory actually started from his seat in affright. In an instant the young captain saw with whom he had to deal, and his course of action was laid out. -“Oh, don’t be alarmed,’’ he said, in a mild tone, ‘‘Where has your companion gone?”’ ‘Why,’ returned Dow, gaining courage from the young man’s manner, and settling into his seat again, ‘‘you see, we came up the river in a boat of our own, and when we came up to this house we left some things in the boat that we don’t hardly wish to have stay there over night, so he has gone down after them. That’s all, upon my honor, sir. Egad, it is.”’ ‘Now, my dear sir,’”’ said Walter, ina calm, easy tone, while he bent his eyes sharply upon the man before him, ‘‘I have a little piece of advice for you. I am going to put a few questions, and I want them answered in a straightforward manner, and I don’t want you to utter a tone louder than is barely nec- essary for me to hear. You donot wish to die at present, I suppose?”’ | : “Oh, no, sir!’’ “Sit still, sir!”’ “Oh, sir, don’t point that pistol at me so. It’s cocked, and if it should go off it would murder me! Don’t, sir!’’ ‘Hush! Utter another sound as loud as that, and | you are a dead man!”’ “Oh, I won’t, I won’t, if you only just won’t kill Gomireboo “S (E(@) m