Beadle's Dime Novels No. 115: The Sons of Liberty — page 53: what you’re looking at

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~ BLOW FOR BLOW. _ 55 “ Her cannot touch her prisoner. If her pe angry, let her wait until the shentleman have his hands free.” “Don’t interfere with me. Get out of my way, Donald Magee. He has insulted me.” “ Plow for plow.. Keep pack! If her touch her prisoner, her will pit her sword through her poty.” “ What is this?” demanded David, coming up at this mo ment. “How now, Donald! Your sword drawn on an oflicer ?” “ Her will try to kill her prisoner. Iish pit here to keep her. Donald Magee will do hish tuty.” “And right enough. © Guy, is it possible that your un- bounded hatred of the man leads you to forget you are a gentleman? ‘You must not lay a finger on him. He is my prisoner. If any revenge is to be taken I have the best right.” “ He struck me.” | “Did you not strike Aim? Ah, I thought so. As for that, he struck me once, and I had no chance to return the blow. But to strike an unarmed and bound prisoner, Guy! Come away !” He took the young man by the arm and hurried him away. “Don’t do that again,” he said, when out of earshot of the prisoner, “ or we will get the Indians mad for blood. It is all the young chief can do to_restrain them. If Brandt were here we, should have no trouble, but now I am afraid half. the time. I wish he would come. There is much to depend on in Joseph Brandt.” ““T have heard him say that he did not like this English name. It would seem to be a sort of tacit confession that his blood is not pure,” a “Thayendanegea is here,” said a low, guttural voice. “ He ia all Mohawk. What can a chief do for his young white brothers ?” They turned in surprise, and saw a tall chief, in the dress of the Mohawk tribe, who had come up unperceived and stood beside them. It was the famous chief, Thayendanegea, better known in history by the name of Joseph Brandt... He was allied to the Johnson family by marriage, its head, Sir William, having married his sister. For this reason he was COmmicloOolkS.eOnn