The Yankee Champion — page 27: what you’re looking at

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Dp of THE YANKEE CHAMPION. ‘You were down on the wharf this afternoon,’’ he said. Nixon started, bk in a moment he thought how it might have been for any one to have seen him as he came up, and he replied in the affirmative. The boy gazed about him again, and then he cast his eyes upon the floor. “Have you any errand for me?”’ asked Nixon, as _ he noticed that his youthful visitor seemed unde- cided as to what course he should pursue. The boy started and looked anxiously up into Wal- ter’s face. ~*T have come here of my own accord, sir,’’ he said at length, ‘‘and perhaps I can be of service to you; at least d hope I can, for I have run no little risk in coming.’ | ‘And in what way do you propose to assist me?”’ inquired Nixon, not a little puzzled to imagine what the boy could know about hm. — ‘You wish to take the English brig that——’’ ‘‘S’death, boy! how learned you that?’’ inter- rupted Walter, as he laid his hand with a nervous ~ erasp upon the boy’s arm. ‘‘Who told you tha? None of my men can have betrayed me?”’ “You need not be afraid,” said the visitor, with- out moving a muscle of his handsome countenance. aa | overheard your conversation on the wharf this afternoon, and if your intentions be such as I think they are, I have come to assist you.” There was something in the boy’s manner, and in the sound of his voice, that seemed a guarantee for > his honesty. At any rate, Nixon resolved to trust him for the present. ‘“Well,my lad,’ he said, ‘“‘I do intend to take that €omicbooks.co