Beadle's Dime Novels No. 139: The Border Foes — page 53: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VIII. MISTAKES AND PERILS. “ Tue Indians are not far off, Walter,” said George Rye- burn, as he stood with his friend in Simon Atlee’s house, lis _ tening to the echoes of the yell that they had heard in the forest. So it seems,” answered Wilson; “ but there was only one _ Who yelled. He has probably found the body of the fellow . that I killed.” pose they would all have been together, if some of them had not got drunk.” os “ [ wonder which way they went when they left here. If them, for they can’t travel very fast on such a night as this, encumbered with the girls and the little boy.” “They have either gone to attack some other house, or have hid themselves in the woods, to wait for daylight. My won- der is, what has become of Simon Atlee, for it is certain that he was not here when the house was entered.” “Tt is strange, indeed. I can’t imagine where he could have gone to at night, and especially such @ night as this.” “Unless he could have gone down to your house. Idon’t Want to excite your fears, George, but he may have gone out - for no good, and your presentiment may have been doubly true. 1 know that Will has been at home lately, for here is the cap that he ulways wears.” “You are right. Surely I have trouble enough for one Right. I wish I could go home. I think I can find the way, : _ Walter, and I must try to get there at all risks.” __ “I will go with you, and I will tell you how I think we m go without much difficdty. Simon Atlee has a canoe on He river, and generally keeps it a little below the place where left our horses. If we can find the canoe, we can easily He it down the river, and stop when we judge that we _ © gone as far as your house.” ie seh “tee” OA Ae * ¥ i - iF > Fy : ._ I knew that, or could give a reasonable guess, I would follow — comicbeoks.com ee ae 7 Ian > - ret ~ F & " - “No doubt of that.. The dogs bunt in packs, and I sup- — ® » . — mal ~~ 2 = ~, + rs ee oN