Beadle's Dime Novels No. 115: The Sons of Liberty — page 98: what you’re looking at

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ms < 100 ‘THE SONS OF LIBERTY. ; had his wound dressed, looking over a list of the killed and wounded in his company. They made some comments on — the Lattle, and Edgar thanked him again for the service he had done, Tommy averred that the next time he might save him« self, and that if he was to be bothered in this manner, he | should go away and look for his uncle. Soon after Richard Connor appeared, with an agonized look upon his face. “What is the matter, Richard?” said Chazsbieel kindly. “Have you bad news?” “ Only this,’ replied Richard, slowly. “ John is dead, and a brother’s hand sped the ball which laid him a pe lad ” And so, his knell was tolled. In the ensuing spring, Edgar and Miriam were tharrted? Afle: the wedding he returned to the army, coming out of it with all honor and a colonel’s commission. Richard Connor was his senior major. Tommy Perkins followed him through all, with a steady devotion which surprised even him. Many atime he interposed between Edgar and danger; once he took a bullet in his own shoulder which would Have lodged n his master’s heart. When the war ended he returned with the rest and remained with Edgar as overseer to his estates. It is needless to'say that he never found that convenient myth, his uncle, Richard married after the, war. A sister of Edgar's visit- ing her brother won the heart of the brave Continental, and one day he rode over to see her, aad asked her the all-impor- tance question, and she did not sav “nay.” Guy Johnson and his brother-in-law returned. to Canada, where a iarge tract of land was granted to Sir John, who lived there many years, surrounded by his tenants. It came out, some years after, that the young Guy Johnston was a son ‘of old Sir William and an Indian woman of the Mohawk na- tion. David Connor died miserably, killed bya panther in the forests of Canada. Sampson Sammons and his sons lived te good old age, and died respected by all as the men who struck first in the cause of liberty in Tryon county THE EXD, j h Conmiclooo ks. conn