Beadle's Dime Novels No. 215: The White Hermit — page 68: what you’re looking at

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of ; f ‘ a6 3 THE WHITE MERMIT. CHAPTER X. PERDITA WOUNDED. - Tue warning did not come a moment too soon. They had pulled the head of the boat round, and were already in rapid motion away from the land, when a volley from a dozen rifles ‘and several arrows rattled all about them, knocking the splinters out of the light craft. There was no time to pay any attention to the masked chief, who was swimming rapidly to- © ~~ ward the shore. As he heard the volley he turned and looked : toward the boat, and uttered an angry cry as he saw that all the | -__ @ecupants were unharmed, though some of the balls had whis- _ ____ tled surprisingly near some of the party. Foaming with rage he | _* gprung out of the water, and snatching a rifle from an Indian who was about to fire, he leveled it at the boat, and pulled the A. . Perdita uttered a faint moan, and sunk down in the bottom of the boat, while the masked chief, who had not meant the shot for her, but for Austen, threw his hands up to his face and fell to the ground. ____# Row on, row on !” moaned Perdita, as Austen made a mo- tion to lay down his oar. “Get out of danger before you touch me.” -__ * A coward shot,” murmured the young man, as he threw _- all his force upon the oar, until it almost cracked. “I will pay you for that some day; be sure of that.” ___ His lips were white with imperfectly restrained rage, and he kept his head until the scattering fire of the savages could — no longer harm them, when he laid down his oar and lifted the form of Perdita in his arms, moaning in pain, while the ___ plood dropped from her wounded arm. The lips of the young man moved as he saw this, but no sound issued from them _ Bill Epps had seen him in anger before now, but never had he — -- Jookcd so terrible as when he sat supporting the woman he _ Toved in his strong arms. Bill rowed on desperately, for he - know that nothing they could do would be of much avail, and - her father’s skill might be baffled by their ignorant though F eee Tcomicbhooks:;com Ly ™ ,- o — . a Pr “—7 ¢ sof = 3 : - . ' . of Tal 7 £.9 . . ° F s 5 - af : +~ ‘ > 4 ‘ ——— ss Z —.. - »—. ae -