Beadle's Dime Novels No. 231: The Texan Trailer — page 33: what you’re looking at

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WAITING: = 63 oa i This at best was a very unsatisfactory explanation, and it did not suit the originator of it himself. '* Must we leave him to his fate ?”’ asked the girl, scarcely able to restrain her tears of sympathy; “must he be left to perish ?” “ I dislike the idea of leaving you again,” replicd Sebastian, “when we are all in such danger; “but, if you wish it, I will take the back track, and make a short hunt for him.” “Oh! do,” pleaded Katrina, taking one of his hands in both of hers and pressing it; “do it for my sake. Colonel Crockett will wait here with me, won’t you?” “ Sartinly—any thing to please you,” was the gallant reply. _ .. “J think, howsumever, that it is all time lost.” But the affectionate girl would hear no refusal, and the Texan prepared to obey, -“ You must promise me that you will not leave this place, and that you will not fire again unless you have to do so to save yourself,” he said, addressing himself to Colonel Crockett, who, of course, gave the promise. : “ You are now standing in the path,” added the Texan. “ Perhaps it will be safer to withdraw a little to one side, so as to be out of the way of any that may come along.” This was a good advice, and was acted upon at once. Crockett led the horses some distance into the woods and fast- - ened them to trees, where they were beyond the sight of the keenest-eyed Comanche, and then their friend took his de- ~atrina was ina tremor of alarm, and seating herself be- side the Tennesseean, wept like a child. The grizzled old wanderer did his best to comfort her, but there was Jittle he could say to soothe her alarm, and.so he let her have her cry arisen something like a calm came back to her, it struck him that soniething ought be done by way of diverting her at- tention from the gloomy subject. “ Let's go to the edge-of the clearing, and see whether any of the varmints are about 2” She arose, and the two advanced to the open space, where the low, broad deserted cabin could be seen, standing as quict + aS. in the moonlight as when they first cast eycs upon it. comichooks:. com