The Yankee Champion — page 183: what you’re looking at

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176 THE YANKEE CHAMPION, would not set thy heart upon the rack by telling thee of that which I have thought.’’ “You have placed my heart upon the rack al- ready, friend Goodhue.”’ “No, no,’’ returned the Quaker, with a meaning smile. ‘“‘It was thine own curiosity did it. Now, 1 ask thee, as a man, to wait.’’ Walter Nixon could ask no more; and though he tried hard to curb the strange curiosity that had beset him, and which gave him not a little uneasi- ness, yet he found it impossible. Once more our hero pressed Helen to his bosom and kissed her. He told her he would come and see her as soon as his vessel again arrived in port, and he bade her be happy and contented, assuring her that Goodhue and Luke would protect her. He bade a kind adieu to Gideon, and the Quaker and his wife. and then he and Luke started for the river, and then returned with the boat. The tide was upon the ebb, but the wind blew strongly from the northeast, and it was with some difficulty that the boat was rowed. The wind set- ting against the tide caused an unusual commotion on the surface of the water, and the waves dashed over the light boat, sending the cold spray, with anything but a welcome sensation over the half- benumbed oarsmen. At a point nearly three miles above the divinke? yards, Walter raised his oar from the water, and oazed along upon the shore. ‘Is there not a good path from here to the old brick-yards?’’ he asked. ‘“Yes,’’ returned Luke. ‘Then let us put in here, and I will walk the rest > of the way. I can do it easier and quicker.’’ ~ Be oPes-co! as 4, oi Wy . - Ti" . 7 pat { : 4 a “ ey * om | ete rs nea e * fe ya >