Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 22: what you’re looking at

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94 BLACKKYES. “Of course I am not., I.can guess their-contents pretty well, and I am sure that there is no occasion, for_haste... The major tells about his little fight with the Navajoes, laying the blame on the scouts. Then he gives some rigmarole about the toilsome journey and the condition of the men and horses, mingled with abuse of the bad roads, and. concludes by saying that he will be in Sante Fe as soon as possible, It may, be. a month before he gets there, and I seeno reason. why I should hurry, especially when I am ordered to report myself under arrest::: Iam not ‘anxious to be deprived of my liberty, Bill Ward.” | sa ots ‘It’s natural that you shouldn’t be, my hey. . Pears as if the old ‘bear must hev’ some kind of a spite ag’in you, What's up atween you ?” “Can’t say. I have neverdone any thing to give him cause to dislike me, though my ideas of Indian fighting are different from his, and I erie he thinks that I am rather too forward for a young man.” “JT suppose the lieutenant, would rather remain near the major’s pretty daughter, and perhaps the major would rather have him somewhere else,” suggestéd Royston, with a wink and a laugh... “'That’s the way. the trail runs,” said Ward. “y nev that thar’ must be a gal mixed up with the business, somehow. Own: up, now, Charley, and tell us about the gal Yer in oye.” : « There is no use in denying it... I think Fanny, Has the most beautiful girl I ever saw, and I do loye her more than a little. . This is a free country, and a man has a tig] it. to love the President’s daughter, if he wants to. I haye tried to keep my love to myself, so that the old major should ‘not suspect it, but; I suppose Captain Sardis has been putting his ae > i my pan. He wants Fanny, § and the major. fayors 4h have no doubt that he has been keen enough 10 aisle at | | | | secret, and-mean enough to report it at head- -quarters, “that fe is the case, I can account for the _major’s treatment of me, though I don’t flatter myself that J have made any gia upon the young lady.” “Does the gal keer fur you, Charley i, “I was just saying that she does not, as far as L know. She Comicbhooksscom 3