Beadle's Dime Novels No. 215: The White Hermit — page 65: what you’re looking at

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“A CHALLENGE J nighi and day, even ime the lodges of the St. Regis, to shed your coward blood.” “ Bah,” replied the masked chief, fiercely. “To the devil with you. I am no coward, not I; neither will I peril the safety of my enterprise for the sake of a combat with you now. But I tell you, red dog that you are, tliat a time may come when I shall make you repent your insults to me this day.” = Coit back, then, and fight,” roared the chief, who was almost beside himself with fury. “Do not make yourself cf a dog when you may be a brave. Come back, and if you =~ slay me, you conquer one who is a chief of his nation.” The only reply was a shot from a pistol, bat in his ex- citement the masked chief missed his aim, though the ball just grazed the cheek of the chief. Before he could draw a __ second pistol Chenango sunk behind the bushes, out of reach "he ; of a bullet, and the renegade took up his paddle and sent 3 the light canoe through the water with rapid strokes. mee a “Curse the Indian,” he growled. “Did he dare to insult x me? I will have his heart’s blood for those bitter words. — _ However, I have carried my point so far that Perditaisin = Otel oo a i eH ~s y "he . | % yl | ay * 2 Pw “e a! eee N ™ wo. ih a ail buen?) 1 alll ‘She had recovered from the blow he had dealt her, and _~ Sat in the bottom of the boat looking at him angrily. ) sr -- “od may thank yourself that I was forced to use you 80 harshly,” said the mask. “You made me wild with your = obstinacy. Now that I have you in a place where your ob- = " 8tinacy can do no harm, I will be as mild as any lamband = __ Your temper may have full sway.” pipe? —_ “ Who are you ?” she said. ~ ate “Tam what I am,” wes the reply. “Ido not proposeto : tell you iow. It is enough that I sought you out and found — = - ‘You, and my mission is in part accomplished. I have my == - Feasons for this, and I think them good ones, and so you will | 4 o think when I explain. There is one thing Ido not mind a> to tell you, and that is that I propuse to make you my wife,” o- —-.. “Your wife r” 2xant “Precisely. I surprise you, doubtless. You do not un Gerstand how a man of my capacity should seek out a forest _ ‘Maiden like yourself to marry her. But stranger thinge a3 3 | | c