Beadle's Dime Novels No. 213: Squatter Dick — page 88: what you’re looking at

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90 ‘SQUATTER DICK. — ~ ‘Her swoon ad of some minutes’ duration, when she opened her eyes and sat erect with a convulsive start. For a moment she did not perceive the negro, as her eyes roved wonderingly around the rude hut, in vain trying te recall how she had come there. But then, as her gaze fell upon the scarred and diabolical- looking face beside her, the change was great. Terror, wonder and disgust was plainly sf ae upon her face. “ You here, Zach. ?” « "Ees, missee tole me true. Zach'ry he hyar, dar, ebery- whar, all de ‘time. - Whoo!” cried the negro, flinging his arms wildly aloft, and gritting his teeth together until it made his listener shudder, his one eye rolling frightfully the while ; “ Zach. am great man now—no whip, no black hole, no ober- seah now! Zach. am king hyar, an’ now de proud w'ite mis- see, she done come hyar to be Crazy Zach.’s queen. Who-oot” To say that Ada was not frightfully alarmed, would be ex- ceeding the truth, but she preserved an outwardly-calm de- meanor and. steady eye, that she fixed full ‘apon ‘that of the ne- gro. She well knew that by these means alone could she hope to eseape the “dreadful doom that threatened her. The negro, Zach., or “ Crazy Zach.,” as he was commonly termed, had belonged to Martin Sollars, and, while young, had , been. considered one of the most valuable and “trostworthy slaves upon the estate. .. There was a handsome mulatto girl,a house-servant, with whom he was in love, and they were to have been married during the approaching Christmas holidays, when, one day, for some trifling impertinence, Mr. Sollars ordered her to be ' whipped. A dozen lashes were administered, with a light hand, for the object was to break her spirit, not to injure her. But that night she disappeared, in common with Zach., and at early dawn the bloodhounds and négro-hunters were put upon the trail, the former being muzzled. The fugitives had taken to the swamp, and for a time eluded pursuit. In a, pool of water they lay: concealed, while ‘all “around them the hounds and men wete searching for’ the Tost’ trail. Doubtless they would have escaped, but like a flash a dark form d Be Oe a ee ° Y conniclbooks,. conn