Black Arrow, the Avenger — page 66: what you’re looking at

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70 BLACK ARROW, ‘Tite AVENGER. have been better for you and for me if the barrel had béen pushed from under me.’ “What do you mean? T am sure that your déath would not benefit me. Why would it have been better for you ?” “There are harder deaths than hanging, as I have good reason to know. One side has had ‘its turn at me, and I may not get off so easy with the other. I feel sure that a blood- hound is on my trail.” nl ““You need not meet those men again. You need not go back among them. Come to Colonel Landry’s house. Rose will be so glad to thank you for her life, and there is so much that we wish you to explain.” ~ « Bat it can not ‘be explained. If T live I will ‘explain it before ‘many days.” “If I die, it will be better for you: | E will thank you if you will let me go now, as I have important busi- ness to attend to.” There was nothing to restrain him, except the entreaties of Warner and Colonel Landry, and’ Whetstone walked swiftly away. “The body of Lawrence Satterlee was again hung up, after a paper had been pinned on its breast, With this inscription : ‘By order of the 5 Vigilance Committee. CHAPTER XL .. “(THE OTHER SIDE. -Wnetstone was indeed in a hurry when he left his friends of the vigilance committee. He walked away very rapidly, and without stopping to look back; but there was a troubled expression in his face. In fact, he doubted whether he i, to go, and he went quickly, in order that the doubt migh’, be aes in that way. The Snortot Doses of which tea spoken was av ex gagement wi th Roder’s men—an engagement to assist them commiclooolks.conn