Beadle's Dime Novels No. 208: The Ocean Outlaw — page 60: what you’re looking at

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8 THE OCEAN OUTLAW. father was dead, to carry you back to Glen's Cottage, and leave you there unmolested. But that plan is likely to be foiled ; so prepare /o die ; for the moment Ralph Gray gets _ possession here, 1 will take your life in his very presence, and thev my revenge will be completed. « You have time for prepiration—improve it.” Granger now turned to leave the cabin; and the victim of his cruel perfidy fell insensible to the floor, He gazed for ® moment on the pale but lovely features, and a feeling akin to pity crept into his heart of stone; but it soon gave place to the old passions. He hesitated no longer; and, stepping to the companiou-way. was quickly ot deck. Scarcely had he taken his place at the whee!, wnen a jet of smoke puffed from the bow of the Vulture, followed by the heavy boom- ice of the thirty-two pound shot that whistled past them, and fell into the sea, hardly twenty feet to the wind- ward. “Thatisa polite way of asking us to lay to. Captain Brewster,” said Granger. coolly ; “and, in my opinion, we are in a very bad fix. They are close upon us now, and they understand how to trim a gun.” “So much for having anything to do with a bloody vil- lain. 1 expected some contounded scrape of this kind. Look out! look out there! blaststheir eyes, they have fixed us now.” _ ‘The exclamation was caused by a second shot from the Vulture, followed by a crash of the iron missile through the rigging. | The main mast totteréd for a moment, and then fell with a splasb in the ocean, leaving the disabled craft to rock about at the-mercs of the waves; and in less than half an hour the Black Vulture was alongside, and fast to the Sea Dird. Notwithstanding the utter folly of the undertaking, Granger, with his usual hardiheud dete: mined to make a des- perate resistance ; and the crew. roused to courage by his example. flocked round Lim, d. termine: to defend every inch of plank in the deck at the risk of their lives. They were not kept long in idleness. The buccaneers crowded over tke conmmiclooolks. Conn