Beadle's Dime Novels No. 138: Tim, the Scout — page 68: what you’re looking at

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70 TIM, THE SCOUT. pursuit who could have beaten him if he had been entirely free—-Tim Whalen. Lizzie saw the bushes part to the rush of heavy bodies, and knew that every one but Ed. had left. the opening. He thought she was gone, too, and threw him- self down upon the earth, under the great tree, with his fore- head upon his hands, and lay silent... She could understand the movement. _ He did not care whether the prisoner was retaken or not. As the shouts died away in the distance, he felt a light touch upon his shoulder, and looked up. It was Lizzie, her beautiful eyes flooded with tears. “ Well,” he said, grimly, “ you have come back, I see.” “ What is the matter with you, Ed. ?”’ “Not much. I have lost something of which I have been very proud for many a year.” : “ What is that ?” “Your love, Lizzie. I could have borne it for a good man ——for a better man than Iam. But that vile Indian agent, who has more wickedness to answer for than any other man in the Indian country! It is too much.” “T do not love him, Ed. I acknowledge he is not so bad as he has been called, but I have not been unfaithful to you. Perhaps I allowed him to say more to me than I ought ; but I am sorry.” | “ Do you love me; then?” ~ “Of course I do, you melas fellow. How can you be so absurd ?” “I was very miserable,” he said, rising and passing his arm about her waist, “when I saw him sitting at your feet, and heard you sing to him as you have sung tome. You will never do it again ?” “ Never, Ed.” . He stooped and kissed her. Just at this moment the sound of voices could be heard again, and the men returned, bring- ing back the prisoner, whom Tim had brotght to bay. He had resisted vigorously, disabling one of the men by a kick, but he was at last overpowered. ‘Tim was especially jubilant over this second capture, but when he saw Lizzie standing close to.“ Masther Ed.,” and that the smile had come batk to his face, he indulged in a break-down on the turf, after the approved Irish style, accompanying the active motions of his’ | ceomicboolkks.com