Beadle's Dime Novels No. 127: Bald Eagle — page 80: what you’re looking at

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82 BALD EAGLE. and claiming Maggie as a sort of property of his, because he had found her in the woods. And so Maggie naked less pale and miserable, and was even more gentle and loving, be- cause now she had no fear. 3 CHAPTER XIV. THE COMBAT OF THE PASS. Tue capture of Yorktown had been effected, and the sur- render of the forces of Lord Cornwallis, by the aid of the French fleet, and the unexampled toil and courage of the little army of patriots. To this succeeded a period of com- parative peace. The royal cause had received a shock so heavy that the war was pressed on their part with little spiyit, while the vigilance of Washington was unceasing. Meanwhile the French fleet had been removed to the West Indies and Connecticut, and all active movements confined to the southern campaign, while the Jerseys so often held by one or the other of the contending armies had become the theater of the most obnoxious features of the war. Frightful atroc- ities were perpetrated with impunity; the Cowboys had _be- come more than ever a terror to the inhabitants. The cruel fate of poor Dora had been reported. to Washington, whose head-quarters were once more at the village of Newburgh, © and at length a detachment was sent to the Ramapo, not only to protect the people but also to punish this lawless band of marauders. The inaction of the armies had allowed Vinton to repeat his visit to the family of De Witt, he having been commis- sioned by Sir Henry to carry documents to the commander-in- chief in relation to an exchange of prisoners. Blanche Montagnie and Katrina De Witt were fast friends during all these eventful months, reading, sewing, walking and riding together; they were quite inseparable. Wendell, now Colonel Montagnie, was detained much about the person of the commander-in-chief, but it became obvious that when comnicloooks. com