Beadle's Dime Novels No. 139: The Border Foes — page 78: what you’re looking at

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= house. He had not gone far when he could plainly see faint - streaks of dawn in the eastern sky, and he soon began to dis-- __ tinguish the dark ontlines of the trees. — _ Gladdened by these signs of approaching day, he hastened - onward, for he was not only anxious to visit the home of his en! .* < ~ * ah + A had ie ee ah W ol ‘ ! oe a “ik < af CHAPTER XI. A SHOT IN TIME. Day was really breaking when Walter Wilson left his friend and the rescued girls, and set out toward Jacob Ryeburn’s frien, and learn whether any disaster had befallen-his family, - but he felt sure that the Indians whom he had met were not the only ones in the forest, and he burned with desire to procure assistance and hunt down the hated foes of the white race. _ He crossed the river without difficulty, and soon found himself in the main road, which he followed until it brought him within a short distance of Jacob Ryeburn’s house. _ Wishing to go as near as possible to the house without being _ discovered, he made_a circuit, keeping under cover of the _ forest, until he reached a point from which he could plainly see the building and the grounds about it. = ~ Tt was now light enough for him to distinguish objects quite 5 ; been attacked. The front door, opposite which he stood, was” _ Teadily, but he could see nothing, from the position in which - he was placed, to induce Lim to believe that the house bad closed, as was usually the case at tbat hour, and all was quiet me about. the premises. There was nothing to show that the. ~. - family had beep distarbed, or that they were not then sicep- ig ss ing in peace and security. Could it be possible, he thought, that Kate Atlee had been — * mistaken in what her father and brother had said, or that they” + had merely pee when they talked about going down owe. house and attacking it? It was not ey 28 = .