Beadle's Dime Novels No. 139: The Border Foes — page 93: what you’re looking at

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from a hole in his head. ce “man and of his weeping wife, _ stunned by the bullet, w "Se ~ A PREDICTION FULFILLED. 95 we As they hastened toward the house, together with several of Captain Hood’s followers, a man disguised as an Indian ran out at the front door, and was instantly shot by one of the Tiflemen. An examination of the body showed that it was Simon Atlee who had thus met the reward of his evil . deeds. Hood .and Wilson rushed into the house, where the fire was burning briskly, but found the lower floor empty, with the exception of Kate Atlee, who was still lying insensible on the boards, with the flames almost touching her. The negro had become frightened, and had gone back into the garret. “Is it possible that the scoundrel haskilled his daughter ?” exclaimed Captain Hood. | | “Tam afraid he has,” replied Wilson. “If you will put out the fire, captain, I will attend to the girl.” The flames were easily extinguished, as the oak logs had not yet fairly caught, and then Captain Hood and one of his men swung themselves up into the garret, where they found = the family bending over the body of Jacob Ryeburn, who was lying dead on the floor, near the window, with blood oozing a § * ‘The same bullet which had slain Simon Atlee, after passing through his breast, had ranged upward and struck his old enemy in the forehead, thus fulfilling a prediction that Atlee had made many years before, to the effect that if Ryeburn did i ime, t die first, they would perish at the same t eeeating his companion to take care of the body of the old Captain Hood went to break the to Alice Ryeburn. ; 2 te Wilson carried Kate Atlee out into the air, he dis- covered, to his great joy, that she was not dead, but had been hich had glanced off from her fore- easures to restore her to life, cee! ble events that had recently 2a and to a knowledge of the tern — comicbooks-com ee,