Beadle's Dime Novels No. 127: Bald Eagle — page 11: what you’re looking at

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THE DEED DONE. 13 “Tark! I am sure I heard a shriek which was not the wind.” “Very likely,” said the other, dryly. ‘Not long after, the latch was violently shaken, and Maggie rushed to the door, and threw both arms around her husband’s neck, He returned her caresses, but absently, and took her arms from his shoulders. He crossed the room, where. his mother stood with sharply-knit brows, and eyes stenMy fixed. . “ Well, my son ?” “ Tt is done, mother,” : She threw both arms into the air with an expression of exultation, and then would have clasped him in her arms, bad not the young man sh de her with a gesture that. said with- out the aid of words, “ no.” It was no wonder that the winds howled, and shrieked, and rushed to hide themselves in the mountain gorges, from sibem ce they sent forth hollow groans, complainings, ana unearthly sobs, for these solitudes had been aroused by a fearful outrage on the night we have described. Black Dick and his fellow associates revenged that night the death of his father, and bowed, as we shall see, more than one lovely head with axihs but the old, withered heart, and the dry lips, which sat that night over the embers, and sR a dead pipe, rejoiced. A. small cottage, with sloping roof aptield by vine-covered columns, stood on a little plateau, not half a mile from the dwelling we have described. It was a secluded, lovely spot, where the river, winding round a jutting promontory, indented a miniature bay, adown which a. green lawn sloped to the pebbly beach. It was a fitting home for two young, loving. hearts—brave, true, patriotic hearts, in which no dark places, no dusky, spider-web-hung chambers, gave shelter to evil thoughts or wicked designs. This was the home of young David Gurney, a deyoted, loyal man, whose whole soul loathed the nefarious doings of the Cewhays, and who had been mainly instrumental in .bringing Claudius Smith to punishment for his crimes. The young man, despite the troublous times, had ma: ried one of the most beautiful girls of the valley. To this day she is talked of as the maiden loveliest of her kind, with a Comichbooksscom