Beadle's Dime Novels No. 214: The Forest Monster — page 62: what you’re looking at

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64 THE FOREST MONSTER. “Why not ? I have no enemies; they are all my friends.” aos “I do not-doubt that; but they are “savage ‘and ‘yu are gull, >vilized ; they are of one race‘and you of another.” dead 12 “It is a difference to'you but none'to me,” she ‘said, sor- ter.” vfully. “ Nowhere else could I find such friends as ‘o2re y? . mond, “‘ Do you doubt me, dearest Lamora? Do you not believe Ir thatI love you? that [am yours, heart and soul? ell me, m;: do you think I am deceiving you ?” Her head drooped still lower, but she replied distinctly : ; “No; Ido not think you would do that.” _ “Then do not doubt me; I will ‘take you to my own home; you shall be mine and [ shall be yours; there is noth- ing that love can do for you that shall not be done. Can you not be happy in my love?” ‘She was silent a few moments,.as'if too mutch affected to speak. Hammond truly and deeply loved this girl, and had all the eagerness of a young lover to carry away the prize swith him, He had spent several months here, held solély by the magnetism of her presence. We have described in the first chapter his singular netting with her, and the deep impression her appearance and lier ‘act of kindness had made upen him. — True to his declaration, he had left his companions, and had devoted all to searching herout. He knew that she dwelt somewhere in this neighbor- “hood, but ‘it 'was a long time before be could discover ‘her. Seemingly by pure accident he had encountered her a few days before. As may be supposed, she was greatly surprised to see him, and their Eiretintepvtew" ‘was quite: embarrassing —_ both sides. ' But their acquintance rapidly pidgitieed, until we have shown how he learned much “tah a early history, and » ‘finally declared his love to her. int [twas plain, and Hammond ewitiat alsin awakened a tender interest in her, but she had not yet reached ‘the “point of giving her love unreservedly to him. She was ‘strongly attached to Kipwan and her Meagan friends, and it was a pain- ful struggle for her to decide'ty leave them forever. , “You have grown up among the people who have treated you kindly, and to whom you feel devotedly attached. It is Commiclooks.conn