Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 25: what you’re looking at

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- A VISION. 27 “Perhaps she went to Charleston, where you could not hear from her.” a “ When the thirty-two chiefs went harleston to try to make peace with the English, I asked several of them to in- quire about her, as I was not willing to accompany them on an errand of peace. They did so, but they could learn noth- ing about her.” “ Perhaps she is dead.” “She is not dead.” “How do you know?” “T am sure of it. I fecl that she is still alive. I see her often with the inside eye, and I could not see her so if she was dead. I will never give her up, and I feel certain that I shall yet find her. _ When I do find her, she shall never leave me.” “She will not bé glad to go into the wigwam of the chief who killed her father and her mother.” _ “TI did not kill them. I wanted to spare, then, but I me taking care of the White Rose, and I could not restrain _m warriors.” Saloueh knocked thie ashes from his pipe aa the embers of the fire, and gazed vacantly and mournfully into. space. | Suddenly, he started up and pointed with. his outstretched — aim into the forest, eyes | opened wide and glaring, his countenance and attitude expressive of wonder and great ex- << matter with my brother ?. Who is that. wo- _man ?” asked Fiftoe, following with SaaDm Es frageer os was pointed out by his friend. At the distance of about thirty from them, dimly seen in the uncertain twilight, motionless, and looking directly at - the two warriors, stood a y ‘and beautiful woman. She_ Was neatly dressed in the costume of the Indian girls, but the curling tresses Of her brown hair, and the clear white and red _ of her complexion, plainly showed that PR, not of the Indian race. She seemed to be surrounded bya silvery haze ya fd reflection of the ear fo tees on upon the tiny drops of moisture with which the filled, and almost “ny man might, at first view, have been disposed to doubt Whether she was mortal. Ait + COMME XX <SCOMD | a Fe ee poe! -