The Maid of the Mountain — page 57: what you’re looking at

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—_ A DEATH STRUGGLE. Bs 59 — The second missile was dodged by the robber at whom it was aimed, at the expense of the man who followed him, and who received the stone on the top of his head, tear- ing off a neat bit of scalp two inches in length by an inch j in breadth. The next moment the man he had missed grappled with Elliot, and the sixth, eluding another piece of quartz which Simpkins hurled ut him,seized the Yankee. A deadly struggle now commenced, while a part of the band of Regu- lators looked on from above, and gesticulated and shouted to_ their comrades on the other side to descend, if they could, to the reseve of their young leader. The robber who had seized him—a powerful fellow, by the way—had no thought that the slight frame of Elliot was so strong. But he quickly realized that he had no ordinary man to deal with. The assailant seized him about the body, and tried, by the exertion of lis superior strength, to bear him to the earth. Bat, the young man refused to be so conquered. His supple limbs were wreathed about those of his enemy in such a way a3 seriously to embarrass his movements, and they fell upon the rock together. To the surprise of the robber, he occupied a subordinate position, and the fingers of the Regulator were clasped abeet his throat in a decidediy unpleasant way. “ Let up,” he man to say. : “ When you are a dead man,” replied Tommy, coolly, re- sisting the efforts of the- man to rise, and still keeping that cluteh on his throat. “ You are in a tight place.” The man seemed to think so. He struggled bravely, but his breath yas cut off, and a purple hue was creeping into his face. The Yankee had grappled with the remaining foe, and down on the prostrate form, stitring him up with his knite when he became restive. _ still; dew. What’n sironder dew sim seen te FoR yo Some of Same will come down here in half a minnit.” - The words bad hardly left his mouth when the ‘entrance of the haunt wus darkened by human forms, and more thar a men appeared upon the scene. In less time than it has taken to tel! it, both the victors were overpowered, thrown on comcbooks.com