Beadle's Dime Novels No. 139: The Border Foes — page 32: what you’re looking at

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= ~ Se a. THE BORDER HOES. _ $mmediately. A smothered curse was heard from the assailanta as they retreated, followed by a few harmless shots. “You have put out their light, father!” exclaimed Alice, who was looking through a hole in the side of the house. “Tt was a lantern, 1 am sure, and it was struck by one of the bullets.” “T am sorry to hear it, for the light was a good thing to aim by. One of them must have been hit, for I heard him curse, and he swore exactly like a white man. They had a lantern, too, and I wonder where they got it, for the red-skins “never carry lanterns.” ; “Perhaps they stole it from some other house,” suggested * Mrs. Ryeburn. Perhaps they did and perhaps they didn’t. If they had made an attack upon any other farm, it is likely that we 4, 3 would have heard of it. There is something strange about “a this, Mary. ‘Those Indians—if they are Indians—have learned to swear in very good English.” aa _ “Tt is the first part of our language: that they learn, I sup- pose. Do you think it possible that they are not Indians? © IE thay are not redakine, we 35 _ “If they are not red-skins, wife, it is plain that they must be white men.” _.“ But youand Alice saw them, and you said that they were s Indians.” They seemed to be fcdlinas, sure enough ; but it is easy _ for white men to disguise themselves like red-skins, and it comes natural for some white men to act like red-skins.” ae _ “Who can they be? What white men would do such g Ny = 6a ” | oe - “Simon Atlee would be mean enough to do it, as you wel] 3 know. pr. t _ * But he is only one man.” ea _ “He has a son, Mary, who is as much like him as an imp _ an be like satan. Will Atlee is a wild and lawless charac. = ter, and his companions are known to be the worst kind of ; 23 men, just such as old Simon would like to have with him, if — he wanted to commit some yillainous act.” A Se “It may be as you suspect, Jacob, and I am afraid itis [gp is a terrible thing for white men to turn against each other, ~ comicbooks.com ee | —_ = >,