Beadle's Dime Novels No. 215: The White Hermit — page 28: what you’re looking at

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- “Don’t be a— By gosh! I’ . gettin’ so mad I don’no’ what to do. I guess we'd better quit. Here; the old man ain’t goin’ to stay with you ary longer.” ood-by,” said Austen. “ Give me the paddle before you ““ Paddle! What fur?” “As you are going to leave, of course you intend to swim ashore, and the paddie will be of use to me,” Bill looked at his companion with a vacant stare for a mo- ment, then a grin came upon h's “ae and he burst into a houd laugh. “You know how to take the u:d man, don't you ?” he said. This was one of Bill’s many peculiarities. Although by no means old, he persisted in calling himself an old man. “I _ guess I won't swim to-day any more. Had enough this Mornin’.” | _ Just in front of them lay the island behind which the boat had gone which carried the senseless chief. Toward this point _ the canoe tended, shot round the point and landed in the little . bay upon the other side. It was a beautiful spot, one of na- __ ture’s most enchanting scenes. Above them, two hundred eS yards from the shore, rose a dark wood, evergreen vines min- _ gling with the foliage of the beech’and maple. Closer to the - shore the ground was as level as a bowling green, and covered with short, green grass. Bill pushed his canoe up to the bank 2 and held it while his companion svached theshore. This done, gee canoe and sto« ‘ together upon the bank of the island. “No good to stay here, Come, et’s go,” said Bill, at once _ striking out on a fast walk. The young captain follow«l. His course took them directly vs toward the center of the island, pushing through a narrow and = ‘Spaied path until they came suddenly into a little opening, in = e center of which a hut of hemlock boughs had been set up. Bi our stakes, with crotched tops, had been driven into the earth, and upon these crotches sticks were laid in the form of a square, ars - roofed with poles. Upon the top of these, hemlock brush had > been loosely thrown to ‘orm the roof, and the sides were Re of the same material, intertwined and securely bound. ~The front of it was left open, =i ers _ c r ee tnd ee ; co es es comichooks.cor