Beadle's Dime Novels No. 298: The Hussar Captain — page 97: what you’re looking at

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HEREDITARY RIGHTS. - 4101 the basin, and taking the negro and his child with him, pulled cautiously through the surging waters, and headed for the, then, town of New York. . A few days more, and with a boat laden with every comfort in his secluded retreat, Mr. Livingstone returned to the cavern off Hell-gate, accompanied by the negro boy and his little son, and from that day the cave became their home, end though he was known to many as the Hermit of Hell-gate, no person — knew the way to his secluded retreat or how he lived. In that cavern had passed the boyhood of the Lionel of my story, with the negro boy his only playmate, and ere he hud reached his fifteenth year, he became a most expert sual- lor, and under the tuition of his father, a thorout®h scholar, At length Mr, Livingstone sickened and died; but ere he breathed his last, he told his son the story of his life, and bade Lim go to England aud claim his tithe and estates, for le knew tbat Lionel was then the heir, as bis brother Launce- lot, so he had seen in a London journal, had been killed in a duel, and .never having married, left no heir, while the old Lord Lionel, shortly after, followed his son to the grave. Lionel buried his father in the grassy inclosure just off the land entrance to the cavern, and, armed with the papers his father had left him, to prove his identity, he sought England, arrying his only friend and companion, the faithful negro, ~ with him. : x | Without trouble he proved himself the heir, and was at — once the lord and mastér of the vast Livingstone estates. Through his travels and his career as an officer in the Brit-— ish army in India, I will not follow him, but hasten on to the breaking out of war between the States and mother country, when, a true American by birth and at heart, he determined / to enter the service of his Country. Finding, however, upon ‘his arrival in New York, that it was in his power to play a double part, he at once sought General Washington, made known to him the strange histo- ry of his life, aud offered his services, and willingly did the American chiefiain accept them. ‘ Strangely like lis father in appearance, Lionel soon made himself more so by assuming the false gray hair and beard, and suddenly appearing before the people, at once revived , ‘ _ conniclbooolkks. conn