Beadle's Dime Novels No. 13 — page 43: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ASSASSINATION BY LAW. 45 When the base creature left the room, a smile of disgust rose to the face of the captain. Though he was willing to use the tool which so readily yielded to his wishes, Reginald most heartily despised him. These thoughts, however, were 800n chased away, for he had other things to consider. This abduction of Catherine Vale was not the only scheme in view. € earnestly wished to effect the death of his other cousin, John Vale. Not, to be sure, by assassination, but rather by the fortune of war; in the field, with sword in hand, or on the scaffold a8 a rebel—either of these modes would be justifiable slaying ! The sister to be abducted, ruined; the brother to be mur- dered the mother to die of a broken heart; avhen these things are consummated, perchance there may be a truly legal claim upon a certain not-to-be-despised fortune, which these three alive would be pretty. sure to keep him from. All should be doié, and the “fortunes of war” would bear the whole responsibility. ’ = comicbooks.com