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“82 THE MAID OF THE MOUNTAIN. them at liberty, since you mean to leave the band, you put - * me off with the pitiful plea that the band must be considered before all-else. Set these men free. It-will be the beginning of a course of good deeds which shall, in some degree, atone for the acts of an ill-spent life.” | _ * This from you, Inez! I thought no one living dare sey such things to me, and yet I hear them from you, and can not answer you. I am weak asa little child. Inez, if I set these men free, if I cut all connection with the evil past, will you love me? Will you be my wife ?” * You ask too much, Arthur. Ask me to go with you wherever it is your destiny to wander, and I wil} obey you as a daughter should. But, that-is the dearest tie that ever can exist-between us”? “erie His eyes began to gleam like hidden fires suddenly revealed. “ That will do, girl. You have said enough. Then know my purpose. You shall do as I wish,-and these who have broken in upon us, if they do net consent to join us, shall meet the fate our laws decree.” | . He dashed on his mask. She tried to stop him, but he pushed her rudely aside, aad rushed from the room, leaving CHAPTER XI, THE Regulators were not idle all this time. They saw with great sorrow the disappearance of their lieutenant and the Yankee, but, like true men, set at work to find means to set them free. The eaptain was in great grief at the loss of young Etliot. The brave fellow had been like &- younger brother to him for a long time, and the strong-limbed Maine lumberman was a true frend and brother. But, he had seen enough to -satisfy him that there would be no child's play in assaulting the robbers in-their stronghold.. The men set to work with their hatchets and constructed a number of rough ladders, which they hung over the face of ‘the cliff in such a way that - a conmicloooks.com