Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 11 — page 115: what you’re looking at

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THE ABDUCTOR SMITTEN. 113 It must have been a great provocation, as is my case; and certainly it is the first time 1 have ever laid hands on any It is needless to say, that after the interview with the young Spaniard, who promised to leave nothing undone in this matter that he could do, the old farmer suffered some remorse for the deed of the morning. His conscience, quick and clear, took him to task, in spite of his self-gratulations on his old-fash- ioned religion—“ an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.” CHAPTER XX. THE END O§, SENOR VELASQUEZ. THe voyage to Cuba in the Aspinwall threatened to prove tedious. A succession of head-winds and baffling storms, that made the captain protest, not always in the most decorous language, that he believed there was a Jonah on board, de- tained them daily; and, to add to the general uneasiness, the captain had Senor- Velasquez on his hands, sick with what threatened to be a dangerous fever. Day after day Minerva remained in her state-room, until the captain, thoroughly alarmed for his wt, and believing, from the incoherent lb tyne, EN listened to, that Minerva’s story was the true one, run risk of her sanity, and sent for her. After some conversation, his brow cleared. “tf I had known this sooner,” he said, “I should have let the villain die, for he is not fit to live. Here I have been nursing and doctoring him, giving him the time my duties ab- solutely required, and all for a lying impostor.” “ What can I do?” asked Minerva, anxiously; “I am tired of inaction. Let me aid you in some way.” “You,” exclaimed the captain, with some vehemence ; “ I'd see the wretch rot before you should help him. What! after he has tried to murder you by inches?” “Tam required to help my worst enemy in his need,” said comiclbookks.conn