Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 40: what you’re looking at

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423 SALOUEH, THE CHEROKEE, which:he threw on the floor, and stood erect before the two young women. He was a strong-limbed, and fine-looking young fellow; with, piercing eyes and. a prond. bearing, and Moawee-looked/at him’ as.if. she was proud.of her brother. - “ Tellikee is welcome,” she said, as, she ose to meet him. “ He has returned before he was expected, and. haa | brought some méat to his empty lodge.” “Itis not very fat,but,good bucks are scarce, and I was afraid you. might. miss me,” replied the, hunter. “ Has the White Rose nothing to.say to Tellikee 2”), 05’ intHelis! very welcome, and, 1, am: glad. that he has. come , alone,” replied: Hetty, with a pleasant smile.” Jo But ‘Lellikeecds not. alone ; he found a friend while, he} was hunting, and has brought him to the wigwam.” _ “Is he really a friend ?” . Cannady, asked, Hetty, “Weare afraid. of strangers,.as.you, know.” “He is. a ftiend:to.the, Cherokees, and. he mist be a friend to us,” replied Tellikee. “My; brother may. come,’he con- tinued, speaking ‘to,some one without, sas etait the doorway was.darkened by another forme) ay a Seoul Woy 2: DHS OW : ral) = i Sac “CHAP PER VI. : ——— I po ts ea a2 «fo the burprise- ofboth Hetty. Crawley and Moawee, the person who entered the hut was a white man. He was attired in the undress uniform of a French officer, and his,co as well as lus gatb, told of his French erigin,: He ¢ a fine in his mae, and in his belt were two wistele,.and. a _ sheath-knife. — As he came ‘in, ile took off his. hat, and bowed, after- of. dancing-master, to the astonished girls, w = as much displeased as they were ‘frightened at his ap- .*“Tamyindeed; fort this day,” he said, speaking in the lan- ee “ Wandering alone in the wilderness, Cconmiclooolks.conn