Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 52: what you’re looking at

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54 SALOUEH, THE CHEROKEE, cave. Twas soon missed, and my guards searched for me every Where but in the right place. ‘They must haye sup- posed thaf*I had run away, for the ground was much trampled, so that they could not have found my trail, if I had made one. — ie I was badly frightened while they were searching for me, and when I heard Saloueh raging and abusing them; but 1 kept quiet, and laid still until there was no more noise about, and I supposed that they had all gone. Then I crept out, and ‘ran away as"fast'as I could, not knowing in what direction to _ go. Igot lost, and I must have starved in the woods, if I had not happened to meet your sister, Moawee, who had been to the Carolinas with Attakulla, and was returning to the Chero- kee country. ‘She pitied me when I told her my story, and took compassion on me, and brought me to this cabin with her.” 1 “Jt is good. Tellikee is glad that the White Rose came here with Moawee. ' Saloneh shall not know where she i3 hid. If Tellikee kills the Frenchman, he can never tell Saloueh.” “But you must not kill him, for it would get you into a great deal of trouble. “He is the friend of ttakulla, and he is © Frenchman, ote of the allies of the Cherokees, and your caer oh would be very angry if you should kill him.” ‘Tellikee will not kill him, but fe must Set come ~ here a trouble the White Rose. Tellikee loves the White Rose, and Saloueh himself niust not have her.” It turned out that the friendship of Attakulla and Latinac was not such as the Frenchman had boasted it to be, for the old emit) salina the hut on the mountain-side, explained the niatter. The old chief declared Latinac to be a man for whom he had neither friendship nor respect. He was one of those wily ers French emissaries who had been continually g to embroil the Cherokees with the English, and who had succeeded, in this case, by exciting the young and nt warriors, until they had forced the older and cooler savised Batty, howsvét hman to treat the Frenc with concliation if hs come again, and promised her that cGomicbookstcom x