The Yankee Champion — page 31: what you’re looking at

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24 THE YANKEE CHAMPION. be rewarded for your information. Here, take this purse, and at some future——”’ “Put up your money, sir,’’ interrupted the boy, while a crimson flush passed over his countenance. “I do not sell my love to my country. Every son and daughter of America owe their strength and will to the welfare of the land. If I have enapvled you to strike an. effective blow for freedom, I shall have reward enough. But I must leave you now, and all I hope is, that you may succeed.’’ “Stop, stop,’’ exclaimed Nixon, as the boy turned to go. “Il must know where I can find you. I would know more of you.”’ “It can matter little to you where I live,’’ re- turned Gideon. “If we meet again it will be by ac- cident, or when I have more intelligence to commu- nicate, and you are by to receive it.”’ ‘“‘T should think one like you would love the deck of a clipper privateer. I would give you a comfort- able berth if you would but go with me.?’’ “Oh, how I should like such a hfe! How my heart would bound could I but join in your warfare; but I cannot—I have a charge I must not forsake. Trust me, sir, you will find all about the brig as I have stated. God grant that you may be successful, and I beg that you will remember me as one who has done all in his power for the good of his coun- try. Farewell.’’ Walter Nixon sprang forward, but the boy had glided from the room, and his feet were heard pat- tering upon the stairs. ~comicbooks CO