Beadle's Dime Novels No. 208: The Ocean Outlaw — page 69: what you’re looking at

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THE QCEAN OUTLAW. 71 ~ Waves as they chased each other by, in a state of mind bor- dering on desperation. He hesitated for an instant, but looked up aud mutter- ed to himself, ‘‘there is but one way—one alternative,” and then walked aft, with a hurried stride. A moment after, a heavy plunge told Mulgrave, who had followed him, that Lis uncle had finished his wretched existence by suicide, A boat was quickly manned, and put off in search of him; but, after some hours’ fruitless labos, they returned > and reported the probable fact, that the buccaneer chief : slept with his followers, beneath the blue waves of the occal. cComichooksrcom