Beadle's Dime Novels No. 215: The White Hermit — page 51: what you’re looking at

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& LONG CONFAR. “Oh! Didn't I tell you? Waal,I laid behind a log, and | pooty soon the cretter he come and set down on it along with = a half-breed that I knowed, that lives among the St. Regis, A pizon critter he is too, ef ever I see one in my life Td give this rifle to hev dared to put my knife right thru his pizon karkiss, but sech is human natur’ that I dassentdoit. "Twould — hev bin ez much ez my life is worth. They had a long con- | fab about some one that I jedged bad run away from Quebec | about three year afore, and that they seemed bound to find. - I didn’t hear the name at fust, but arter a while I understood — that he was called the Chevaleer Marly. I couldn’t make out : jest what he run away fur, but I did make ovt that the masked = - @hief hates him like pizon, and wants to keteh him.” P “Ha!” said Marstowe. “If it were not for that deformed shoulder of his I think I should know him. Did he seem to know where the Chevalier was hidden ?” “Pears as ef he suspected. What's the use of hiding it? He has hern somewhere that an unknown man inhabits this island, and he has come here to find if it is the man hehates.” “ Indeed ?” : * He said he know’d he was hidden somewhar, and the gal _ with him. Seems that the Chevaleer had « ge! with him too.” ~ “ZT understand you, Bill. You think the Chevalier, whom _ this man pursues, is myself. Suppose it should be so, would that be any reason for you to withdraw your frierdship?” _ “Not ef I am any way acquainied with myself, it ain’t,” re. 3 plied the guide. “I'll stand by you. Thar ain't mwch forto tell. I heard ’em say thet they’d sent out two spies to look over the island. I drawed off and give you the sign. Did - i ‘ - me PRE ew . “a = ’ mee <' be al Ab Po’ 1. tv ‘) pal eh ah ela > you hear it ?” Ma “ Yes.”. ce “ What come to them Injins ?" = Me “One of them lies at the bottom of the lake, the other es = “Yes, yes. Ah, the sights I have seen, and the fights I es have fou’'t in the Injin kentry. No matter. You put ma ashore. ‘Then let the old gentleman take the boat back,and leave us two to take keer of ourselves. We kin do it, bet yer ~ - a to Zz “ After a little consultation they pushed the light boat into ~¢ Si Oo 7 ps <i er . % "= comicbooks.com