Beadle's Dime Novels No. 213: Squatter Dick — page 22: what you’re looking at

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24 SQUATTER DICK. he felt that he ;must strike..one blow, even if his. life should pay the forfeit. .. ' _ Thrusting the. muazle, of: his. rifle; through. the chink, he: took a deadly aim at the man upon the table, Mark was the only one of the brothers that could be. plainly. seen, and When; the double. sights drew full, upon the, left temple, the: spy touched the trigger. | Simultaneously with. the. report came. ‘a dull, heavy fall ; then for a moment all was. still as.death. . But without paus- ing to note the effect of his shot, Laflin slipped the strap that hung to his rifle, over his head, and darted through the bush- es toward the pond.-. As he reached the bank he heard the. rush of the outlaws as tiey emerged from the building im hot BUFR yeas S148. BS Dison. oi - Leaping far out. into the water the avenger swam with his utmost speed for the opposite shore. But the heayy splash was heard, and, before he gained the shelter of the friendly swamp. lis pursuers gained the bank he had just lcfi, and the loud shouts, together with a hasty volley... of rifle-bullets, that hartled around hi,,. told plainly. ‘that he was discovered and that he would have to. put_his. boasted | skill as a. SWaMmp scout into play, to avoid the terrible doom that awaited him, if caught... Nevertheless, le paused fora moment upon the etee of the swamp, to shout, in.a disguised, voice : _.“ Tell, Mark -Keedy that shot. was for Charlie ‘Sauvain’s wife!” and then. glided away. into the recesses of the swamp. He could hear the tramp of his pursuers as they eagerly hunted him, mingled with curses as, they sti over hall submerged logs or came in violent contact w the trunks of trees. He could hear them shouting and calling to cach other as they splashed through the mud, and watcr, and smiled lo himself.in grim derision, as, he thought, how, fvolish they le how. differently he would have acted in _ their ithe: i Par , wMinintG@iax (us ar) But all the outlaws were not of this kind ; there were some who glided along with comparative ease and sil mn pe to avoid by intnition the obstacles that so. both: the 1 inex- perienced. Among these were the three, Keedy, boys, who were. barning with a davige to ATEDBR, thelr: brother's kai upon his murderer. viel 7 a! conmmicloooks.conn