Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 28: what you’re looking at

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ad 30 SALOUEH, THE CHEROKEE. sd The Indian, who had started from his concealment, evaded the missile, and fled like a deer through the forest, pursued by the two warriors. Acting together, they nearly caught him, but he ran very swiftly and skillfully, and soon escaped them, under cover of the growing darkness. Saloueh and Fiftoe despondingly returned to the spring at which they had left their weapons. CHAPTER IVY. THE CATAWBA SPY. nl Unver the shade of lofty and spreading trees, on the rich green grass that bordered a rivulet, sat Matthew Crawley and Warren Stafford. These two young men had grown a few years older since Stafford had so’harshly treated the young Cherokee chief when he came to woo Hetty Crawley, and the appearance of both weve that they had not only suffered pains of the ‘mind, but undergone many labors and perils of the body. They had, indeed, during the Tast three or four years, passed through great excitement and danger, which had ego scenes all nei VT and called forth all their powers The homies of both had been Jaid waste, and young Crawley had lost his parents and his sister, the former having been slain savages, and the latter, as was supposed, having into a terrible captivity. Since that time—-or, rather, since the commencement of the war—they had een actively engaged as members of the militia of their province, in ly eongn frontier against the ravages of the or ia attacking the Cherokees in their own country. | had ‘acted mostly together, both as soldiers and scouts, and had “aequired an amount of information and experience in a which was very — to their people at — > ; - - 7 Matthew Crawley had developed into a said rch eae | iene: man, and his qualities of mind were not at al} comichooks:com