Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 29: what you’re looking at

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a ; ~~ THE TWO HUNTERS, O» behind his bodily abilities. As a soldier and a citizen, he was admired and respected by all, and he had been especially re- commended to the British commander of the expedition against the Cherokees, a3 @ Man who could be trusted in any Position. , : Warren Stafford, also, had greatly changed for the better. The rashness of speech and action, which had been his chief judgment and discretion, as well as his bravery, were consid- ered equal to those.of his more stolid and sedate companion. The former lightness of his demeanor had given place to & gravity beyond his years, and his fine features were shaded by a gloom which was seldom driven away by brighter thoughts. | : Tie young men had been friends from their youth up, and “Of late years their friendship lad been strengthened, and they had been drawn more closely together, by the tie of a great and common affliction. They had vowed to assist each other in endeayoring to rescue Hetty Crawley from the power of | the savages, if she should yet be alive, and to avenge the death of her murdered parents. ‘All the time that th been able to spare from military service, and from ot uiies, had been devoted to this object, but neither the br _* Ror the lover had been able to gain any trace of the lost girl, determine whether she was living or dead. | Their ven- ‘trad-been wreaked abundantly upon the Cherokees, - Although it still remained to be executed upon Saloueh, whom they justly regarded as the real author of the massacre. Num- of the savages had fallen victims to the ring fire of © ‘ hey were dressed in the usual pun garb of hunters, but they wore feathers in their caps, and cross-belts for their &mmunition pouches, which showed their connection the militia, who had been called out by the governor of Sopih _ ‘They were seated, after dusk, near the remains of a small. in smoking their pipes, the customary solace of backwoodsmen in the wilderness. Their caps and belts hud b- a >. ™ = P Conmiclooolksaeteyin - Sone —_ -