Beadle's Dime Novels No. 142: The Sagamore of Saco — page 57: what you’re looking at

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THE CHIEF ELECT. 59 CHAPTER XII. A MAN OF METTLE. _ Years rolled away, but they brought no peace to the mind of John Bonyton. His was not the mind to bend to the storm, and extract submission from the precepts of Christianity, or that calm 4 philosophy which learns at length to submit to the inevitable. He brooded upon his loss day and night; he never again entered the roof of his father. Knowing the atrocious plan concocted beneath it, of charging Hope with witchcraft, he could not endure the sight of those whose ernelty he abhorred, and whose hypocrisy was too apparent to be excused. Finding no sympathy with the colonists, he finally entirely estranged himself from them, and passed his whole time with f the Saco Indians. Their simple truth, their loyalty to a friend, no less than their hatred to a foe, harmonized with the broad shades of his own character, and he learned a peace With them which his own people denied him. Gradually his higher intelligence, his daring courage, his contempt of danger, hardship and death, so won their admi- » ation that he was elected sagamore, or chief.’ Thus did these primitive people recognize the essential manhood of Join Bonyton; thus did they trust him, submit their inter- ests to his keeping, and look up to him as one worthy of all reverence. Once they besought him to select one of the fairest of their maidens to wife; but when he showed them that the wounds of his hehrt could never heal, they said no more. The colonists resented this departure of one of their mem- bers from civilized usages, and visited the career of John Bonyton with the utmost gcrimony of Puritanical persecu- tion. They looked upon him as wholly given over to Satan, and unentitled to the ordinary claims of human sympathy or human fellowshi _ Always a contemner of forms, after his election of saga- More to the tribe, John Bonyton refused any submission to ee " comichooks.com ae ; +. ‘ o .