Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 63: what you’re looking at

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ATTAKULLA DENOUNCED. 65 Saloueh was as good as his word, for he was inclined to be ~ suspicious concerning Latinac, and wished to compel.A ttakul- la to reveal the hiding-place of his daughter and Hetty Craw- ley. He was more than half-convinced that the Frenchman had not told him the whole truth.in regard. to Hetty, and» he did not relish the idea of being held in leading-strings by him or by any man. Sayage as he was, he, had sense enough to perceive that Latinae was endeavoring to make; a tool. of him. He had no objection to being used as a tool against the Eng- lish, for his feelings and his interest prompted him to oppose them and to fight them; but he was always ready to work woe to the man who should attempt to cross him in his love. If he could force Attakulla to tell him where Hetty was con- cealed, he would feel. independent of the Frenchman, and might gq and claim her whenever it, should suit his desire-and _. He easily persuaded Oconostota to call together the warriors on the morrow, as there was considerable business) to be trans- while Attakulla was present, he made.a speech, in which he nced the old chief as a friend to Gntaiehant ae ter to his nation, recounting various, instances in which» had given aid and sympathy to British. prisoners and:others. J ure of Hetty Crawley and her escape, and av- n responsible to him for her, and should be foreed to deliver her up to him, or to disclose her hiding-place. _ Attakulla spoke in reply, using temperate and conciliatory °f his people. He had raised his voice in ‘behalf of peace, &nd had urged them to make peace, but that was all. As re- -88rMed the white prisoner of whom Saloueh had spoken, he Rothing to do with her, and had no control overher, She CoOmicbooks.conl YS