Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 31: what you’re looking at

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‘Regro man, who survived the massacre, s te 4 i, HOPES AND FEARS 38 Superiority ; but, in fighting in this country, I belleve that: our Carolina militiamen can do better than the regulars of King George. I-wish, indeed, that this campaign was ended, and successfully ended, so that we might go together through the Cherokee country, and make a thorough search for poor Hetty. We have been on the trail a long time, but have yet-really done nothing toward the attainment of our —, How long is it, Stafford, since we lost her?’ “ Next October, it will be four years !” “So long! It is a great while for her to retsain mt cap- tivity, if she is stijl a prisoner. I am afraid that she has been murdered, or that she has died under the treatinent of tis Savages.” ae “T have no such fear. We are - dead, Matthew, and I believe Hetty to be still alive, but it makes’ ae A to imagine what may have happened to her.” epee . “ What reason have you for that belief? os “ The same that I have told-you of mc when she was taken, but was jt away apti heard the order given that good care should be'take | Fe eg prac rere be no doubt that Salou Ry her to be somewhere in the province, for he nar ole & a 4 inquiries concerning her, of prisoners and others. It i at-he believes her to be alive, but that he does not know What has beeome of her. It is probable that she Las sscaped from him in some way.” : " “What you sy tery reasonable, nd ther al « ope peas Ewan tet et glad, has happened to her, that she is not in the power tas eustionh red-skia.” ie <a “That is 8 consolation, wae ‘but it would «iit is 2 re me to have my hand on Saloueh’s thront.. T would never let go my hold while le a “and my mother is not avenged while he Stres for he was tho of that massacre, if he did not kill them with his own _ If we comeacross him, Stafford, you must remember is the first chanee at the villain, eats x we < . cormbaze okore i oe ae