Beadle's Dime Novels No. 208: The Ocean Outlaw — page 57: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER VIL Two hours later. Cthel bade adieu to the home of her shildhood, liitle tuinking she was leaving it for the last time; yet, so it proved. Morton accompanied them as far as St. Angustine.on their journey, and saw them safe on board the Sea Bird. He then turned bis steps homeward, with a heavy heart, and very gloomy forebodings. Everything on board the Sea Dird was arranged for a hasty departure; and Captain Grewstcr, who was well pleased with the quiet aspect of things, lost no time in get- tiog his craft under way. The bcst state-room that the ves- sel afforded was appropriated to the use of Miss Gray, where she was lelt the greater part of the time to herself. Now, when Granger had his victim fairly in his power, he had not the courage to unfold his base designs to the unsuspecting maiden, who had been wiled into bis net, but still looked upon him as acting in perfect good faith; never, for a mo- mett, suspecting the deep plot into which she was eptan- led, : Occasionally, even Granger’s seared conscience frc- proached him wiih the ruin he wes working; but it was -g@ momentary pang. quickly banished from bis mind, and he langhe@, with a kind of fiendish delight, when he reflected bow faithfully be had carried out his plans of revenge, Twenty four hours after leaving St. Angustive, the Sea Dird was making ber way through the group of Bahama ‘hough the cratt wasin a rather out-of-the way place ‘for a merchantman, she was not alone; a strange suil bad just been reported from mast head, that was bearing down upon them, with the evident intention of cultivating comclbooks.conm