Beadle's Dime Novels No. 298: The Hussar Captain — page 26: what you’re looking at

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30 THE HUSSAR CAPTAIN. * Well, sis, [ will not tease you more. Lord Lionel is an | Englishman and lience an enemy; but he is a gentleman, aud has certainly done us all a great favor, and I would gladly meet him to thank him; but now I must be off, so I will leave you two together while I go abroad, to see what I can discover hopeful in the case of Colonel Vancourt, whom I pledge my life to save from death.” Hastily embracing his sister, and the maiden of his love, and promising to return ere midnight, Glen Tarleton quietly left the mansion, and with his heavy cloak wrapped closely around him, once again braved the fury of the storm, as he wended his way in the direction of the secret club of the Rev- olutionists, His challenge by the grenadier and the haughty and defiant reply he had given—his disarming of the soldier, flight and combat, in which he slew the sentinel by the river, and then opportunely escaped through the agency of the Hermit of Hell-gate, are already known to the reader. He did not return to the shelter of his home, that “night, and the fair watchers watched in vain. ' 5 CHAPTER ¥-1I. THE SCHOONER. WHEN the small craft, containing the giant negro and Glen Tarleton, had made a stretch half across the river toward the Williamsburg shore, the sable helmsman let her fall off grad- ually until before the gale she bounded away with a flowing sheet down toward the Battery. Rapidly the dim lights of the streets flashed by, and in half an hour the negro had rounded the point of the town, and was heading toward the Jersey shore. “Dis wind blow like de great Jerusalem, massa, so I’se ywine to ax you to’tend de sheet while I fetch her round.” “You are going to stand up the Hudson then ?” “ Yes, massa.” 4° conmiclooolks. conn