Beadle's Dime Novels No. 13 — page 27: what you’re looking at

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CAPTAIN .PRESTON’S INSTRUCTIONS, 29. seems that he was not killed by the Indians, and lived Jong. enough to raise a family. He is dead now, but there remains. & son and daughter, not to speak of his wife. Your uncle took it into his head to turn this only son out of doors; that was what caused him to come to America; but, as he left no will, the estate naturally enough reverts. to his. grand- children.” 3 “ And who are these grandchildren ?” “The grandson is John Vale, one of the rebels whom we endeavored to capture yesterday night.” TT CHAPTER LV. THE WOLF AND THE LAMB, “So, he is nothing but one of these cursed rebels, after all. If that is the case, my chances are not so. desperate as you seem to think. If Captain Morgan succeeded in doing his. duty, he is doubtless in custody now, if not dead, Of course I speak of the young man; I have no fears of the old woman and her daughter.” CEPI “Qaptain Morgan did his duty to the best of his ability; but Iam sorry to say that John Vale is not only not in custody, but that, on the. contrary, it. is Morgan and his command— that is, those of them that,are still alive—who are the prisoners.” . “You can not mean to say that a troop of dragoons has been defeated by a squad of these half-mounted, half-armed . rebels ?” a, % “J mean.to say just. that; and I, now order you. to take your troop and proceed to the spot to bury our dead. No doubt the Americans will bein such haste to leave, after. their victory, that they will have left, the corpses still exposed.” “ And. after that, what remains to be done ?” 5 EN “You will leave the spot and return some miles. There are two whigs, whose houses are close together; their names are Phillips and Tappan. Take up your quarters with them. Connicloookxs conn