Beadle's Dime Novels No. 20: Florida; or, The Iron Will — page 58: what you’re looking at

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56 FLORIDA, OR, THE IRON WILL CHAPTER IX. DISAPPOINTMENT. A TERRIBLE REVELATION. ParkER walked home on wings. He was almost fright- ened at his own happiness, « To-morrow,” he whispered to -bimself, “I will claim her—she is mine, beyond all earthly power to separate.” He reached the little dingy farm-house where he boarded, and from which he hurried every morning at daybreak, to escape the fumes of pork and sausage that had a lively antipathy. It looked so queer, so black and desert ot a friendly light to be seemethat he almost dreaded to enter; but presently, laughing off his fears, he vaulted over the fence—his usual way—and, climbing a low shed, opened his window and leaped in, To get a light Was the work of a moment. He looked about; on the table lav a note, neatly folded. to-himself Did his sensitiye temperament forewurn him that there was trouble there ? Certain it is that he folded his hands behind him, and looked tong and doubtingly at the missive. “Suppose it should bo” a cold shiver ran through = ves. He had already given r warning of his departure, and a master haq been engaged for the school in the village. That situation was gone from him irrevocably—for he knew that the state of feeling toward him certain quarters was such, that even his friends thought the course for him was to resign, although they would not have counseled it unless satisfied that he could do better. At last, determined to know the worst, he Snatched the envelope up and tore it open. Good heavens! did his sight deceive him? The note was from the head committee of the public School in the city, saying that the matter had been reconsidered, and .they had decided that he was not the man they needed. They were very sorry, etc., etc., but there were circumstances, ete., ete, ; teen followed the signature. Comic ooolks.com