Black Arrow, the Avenger — page 95: what you’re looking at

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- THE OLD LOVE. : v>99 _Bight was far. advanced, when he came in sight of- March’s Settlement. Not caring to stop at that small collection of shanties, the train pressed.on in the light of the newly risen moon, until it reached Colonel Landry’s house. Ben Blood showed such strange emotion when he learned that the caravan had arrived, that his half-brother could not. help taking him aside and asking him what was the mat- ‘ter. “ There. is. one thing I hayen’t, told you,’ replied Ben “ Miriam Boyd is. with, those wagons—she and John Wilson. They are married, I suppose... He .was badly wounded, and she was holding his head when I left them.” “Tt don’t follow from that that they are married. Suppose 3 they are married ; why should it trouble you? Do yon still care for Sa “ Care for ber ! ‘L.have never loved. any woman but her, and I can't tell you how much I haye always loved her. But she hates me, and she has good reason to hate me.” “ Why should she hate you?” “ Because I behaved so shamefully,when I stabbed John Wilson and ran away. dh if. Bpsmrondee: hes vebe-sinakried him.” . : “Tf ahe hates you, she has Jately learnt how, and I don’t “believe that she has married John Wilson. He made her an offer of marriage-before J left the State; bat she declined it, and he told her that,he would Jeave the offer coe There never was a better fellow than Wilson.” | “ True enough, <nd 1 have,been,auch # vagahond:: q don't want ber. to, know, that, I.am_alive... rieamomareet to be seen by. her.” oe be hard to keep her from bubier that. you are ee will be plenty to tell her, if I could lie about it. ro eh pa ag she sees me. The last words she spoke, when £ left; the State, were to charge me to make inquiries about you,”» .. sre coming in. There. she i is, George, at the door.” ‘ ike, and his ied recsved a warm greeting t ot Onel — +s. George Warner, who was acquainted with tne, bastened or them into the house, where Bos were rooa pa e.. ‘They were not surprised Comichbooksscom| -