Beadle's Dime Novels No. 142: The Sagamore of Saco — page 26: what you’re looking at

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28 THE SAGAMORE OF SACO. Hope langhed a bitter, contemptuous Jaugh, and turned slowly homeward, followed by the repentant Bonyton, to have the indignant words of the girl and the protestations of the other overheard by the two fathers, CHAPTER V. THE “ ELECT.” Tue voyage which it was proposed for John Bonyton to take to England was deferred from time to time, and the young people resumed thicir careless, desultory life, now in the forest and now upon the sea—Acashee even more devoted than before in her attentions upon Hope. It might be no- ticed, however, that the people of the colony were more watchful, and even more critical, in their observance of the latter than usual. Often as she passed in her short velvet tunic with her white hair floating in the wind, glances were exchanged, inter- mingled with now.and then an ominous and malignant frown. While the Indians watched her slightest movement with in- terest akin to awe, the less sympathetic colonists looked upon her with distrust amounting to aversion, and many, had con- ceived the idea that she belonged to that dangerous ‘class “ ac- cursed of God,” and to be destroyed by men, as in those olden times, when the King of Israel consulted one akin to Hope in the person of the Witch of Endor. But, as yet, these were surmises only whispered in secret, and concealed from the knowledge of the Governor and his friends. The Indians of the Saco tribe, while they were more pow- erful than all others of the eastern tribes, were less aggressive, also. Conscious of their power, they cared little to molest those whom they could easily crush, and hence they devoted - themselves warmly to the white colonists, perceiving in them at once much to excite their admiration and stimulate their own endeavor. ™ : . Comiclboolx<s.conn er tao om. ee er Setlite EE == eT Ulcer