Red Belt, the Tuscarora — page 71: what you’re looking at

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ES THE PARTING KISS, % at For an instant the girl flung her arms passionately around - bis neck, and clung there desperately, Then she suddenly = unlocked her grasp, and touching lightly the hand of Roydon Howe as she passed, she trod swiftly, yet softly to the opening im the tent. There she paused and listened for a moment; then quiclly lifting the swaying skin, she passed out. Red Belt and Roydon Howe stood perfectly still for several moments, after the noble-hearte maiden had gone. Then the prisoner crept to the door and peered through the narrow opening out at the never-tiring sentinels. 2 There they were stil!, their rifles cast carelessly over their ris shoulders—walking up and down their beat. Sig The two—Red Belt preceding—moved to the opening, cut : by Mis-kwa’s knife, and went silently out. : The long line of shade to the rear of the tent was now broken in two places, by broad, white patches of moonlight. : Red Belt paused and, still in a crouching position, shook - his head. Then as if re-forming a resolve, he sprung to his > . feet, and giving his companion a signal, darted away. On they dashed. They passed, in safety, the first. belt of light, but, as they entered the second, a wild whoop from one of the sentinels echoed far and wide. In an instant a rifle ball whistled after the fugitives But it passed harmlessly by. The sentinels again sent forth their warning cry, and darted on in pursuit. All at onge, another rifie-shot rung sharp and clear in the air. It came from the depths of the neighboring wood. The * foremost of the pursuing Indians sprung high in air, and fell ~ forward upon his face, while there came from the dark forest, a wild, almost unearthly whoop of triumph and defiance. It was at this instant, that Wild Hawk, as we have men- tioned, suddenly paused by the door of his lodge. 4 Comicbooks.com —