Beadle's Dime Novels No. 298: The Hussar Captain — page 10: what you’re looking at

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14 ) THE HUSSAR CAPTAIN. “ Remain quiet an instant, Captain Tarleton, and I will re- turn.” So saying, he nimbly sprung from the boat, and disappear- ed into what appeared to be to his companion the very face of the cliff. CHAPTER II. THE HERMIT OF HELL-GATE. A FEW moments only was the helmsman gone, and then he suddenly appeared, holding in his hand a lantern, which lit up the rocky sides of the basin, and displayed the mouth of a cavern opening upon the shelf against which the skiff was moored, “Spring ashore, Captain Tarleton, and follow me, please,” and obeying the request, the officer walked on after his guide, who led the way into the cave, which was low and narrow at first, and then abruptly opened into a spacious, rock-bound chamber, rudely but comfortably furnished. Glen Tarleton glanced quickly around him, and discovered that he stood in a chamber jn the solid rock, with apparently two apertures or passages leading therefrom; one through which he had just eutered, the other upon the opposite side, and smaller than that leading to the boat. ; The walls were ‘rock, ag was the flooring, and perfectly dry, while in one side of the cavern burned in an artificial grate a wood fire, imparting a warmth to the place, and the smoke escaping through a wooden funnel leading up to the roof of the cavern. The floor of, the cave was covered with a thick matting, and the furniture of the underground ciamber consisted of a small bed, a lounge, and an easy-chair or two, With a table and shelf of books, and of the latier there were quite a& number. Upon one side of the fireplace was a shelf containing an oven, gridiron, coffee-pot, anda few dishes, while an open eonnicloooks.com) ee ee ee ee ee