Beadle's Dime Novels No. 135: The Cherokee Chief — page 76: what you’re looking at

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78 SALOUEH, THE CHEROKEE. answer. He returned to his friends, and said that he. feared that something had happened—that there was no one in the lodge. Ayes What can be the matter?” asked Stafford, suddenly be- - coming down-hearted and fearful. “Have we come so far, and with such great hopes, only to be terribly disappointed ? My God! is it possible that Saloueh has been here, and that he has carried off the prize, while we have been lagging by the way ?” “ Perhaps they are only sleeping, or taking a stroll,” suggest- ed Crawley. “ Let us enter the lodge, and we can easily tell whether they have left it.” . They went into the hut acccordingly, but found it, as Atta- kulla had feared, empty and deserted. “She is gone!” moodily exclaimed Stafford. “‘There can be. no doubt that Saloueh has been hem and carried her off. ” “T think it is not so certain, ” calmly replied Crawley, who had been carefully examining the hut and the cave.+ “ It seems probable to me that they have moved away quietly and de- liberately, of their own acco nas ot speak very coolly about it. What nae you say te Hetty had been taken away, it must have been done , for you know that she would not haye consented to gw Sai If she was taken forcibly, there must have ; - Moawee was with her, and probably t @ 80 of Atxuie i there would have been some signs of their resistance; but we can see nothing of the kind. Besides, their cooking utensils, and other articles of furniture, have been re- moved, as if they had taken them somewhere else. Tam in- clined to believe that they have feared some danger, and have sought another hiding-place.” _ As the ilies sstseatte in the opinion, Stafford was fain to be cone it, and the party passed the night in the hut. . “We will find her yet !” joyfully exclaimed ne ‘morning, as as he returned to the hut from an eatly walk | -“ Catamarra has found a trail, so slight wv