Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 70: what you’re looking at

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° 73 SALOUEH, THE CROWD, way beneath them, ‘and they rolled together down the slope into the dark water. Finding x themselves submerged, they also discovered that they were too much bruised and weakened for further hostile efforts in that element, and each contented himself with pad-. dling wearily to the shore. They had lost their knives in the last struggle, and had no weapons left. but their hands. They. scrambled up the bank together, and sat down to rest, As Stafford looked at his antagonist, and saw the drageled plume and the limp condition of the halfdrowned chief, the sight so struck upon his sense of the ludicrous that he burst into 4 laugh. Salouelh was at first angry at, his mirth ; but | when he noticed the appearance of himself and his foe, he. caught a touch of Stafford’s humor, —, mouth cli out s a grin. “seems to me, red-skin,” cana we have had ge of this. 2. “Tt is good “s replied Balonehi. “ Warriors should not fight. like children. The Great Spirit has said that I shall not Kill ) the young captain.” “I suppose he has said, too, that you are not to be killed. by. either Mat. Crawley or me, though we haye heavy aecounts. against you, and though we have tried our best We had better go our ways.” | “The young captain has spoken well. e are both z ing. the White. Rose, who is lost to us cane us search for her in his own way, and let him find d her to, whom the Great Spirit shall send her.” : “Agreed ; but you know well enough, chief, ‘that y you have no business with her.” _ The late antagonists rested th a while on the baa, ' Soe ED. arose, and silently went in different directions, ing, muc penothe worse for the combat in which they a a : * Se Ooo a