Beadle's Dime Novels No. 208: The Ocean Outlaw — page 14: what you’re looking at

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= . ~ . - 16 THE OCEAN OUTLAW. close by, and he will not be obliged to me for my com- pany.” So saying, Morton walked away, and left Ethel to re- ceive her guest, who had landed, and was approaching her. The new comer was a young man in the neighborhood of twenty-five, and, at the first glance, would have been pronounced the perfection of masculine beauty in face ant figure; but one skilled in human nature would have at once detected in his countenance an expression indicative of much cunning, and sinister motives, that rendered his otherwise handsome features repulsive and forbidding. He was dressed in the usual costume of the sailor, and * the full, white trowsers, blue jacket, pumps and broad- brimmed hat, all appeared very becoming, and it was very apparent, from the free and easy way he assumed, that he was aware of his personal advantages, and confident of his ability to please, although he noticed that, for some reason, Ethel did not appear to welcome him quite as warmly as good opinion with which she had regarded him, the words of Morton, in whose judgment she had the most implicit gonfidence, sunk into her heart. She knew little of the world and its ways, and never thought of distrusting one who was, to all appearance, a gentleman, and moreover, Possessed the warmest friend- ship for her family. “ But the words of her old friend opened a nbw train of thonght, She had been wont to look upon Granger as one who coukl, if he chose, be a very equable companion, and had always welcomed him with pleasure, as she woul any other friend. She now saw the matter in a different light; she saw ina moment that there were some suspicious circum- stances connected with his visits, and wondered she had never looked at it in the same light before. Ethel had seen Stephen Granger, for the first time, shout two years before. He had become acquainted with her by accident, in some of his ramblings, aud at once be. GOMICDOOKS: CO — y . * - yo a were. ~ usual, and such was the ease. For notwithstanding the - —<—. .— 2 < vy a