Beadle's Dime Novels No. 305: The Girl Scout — page 71: what you’re looking at

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A WOMAN’S SCORN. yi, “You are the magnet which attracts me here,” he said. “Tet me speak of that which is in my heart or I shall go mad. I have adored you for this year past but dared not Speak, because I had not the means to give you the position your beauty claims. Now I am on the road to riches and I come to lay it all with an undivided heart at your feet.” “ Mr. Foix,” said Maud, angrily, “I am not aware that any thing in my conduct has given you encouragement to speak to me in this way. Take your answer, once and for all, sir; I do not love you, can never love you, and will not be your wife.” “You leave me without hope?” he said, in a low tone. “TI did not think that you hated me or I should never Lave given you this opportunity to insult me. You will not marry me; you love this low adventurer who has so lately come among us, and who has robbed me like a liar and villain.” “You are—what you have just called him!” was the Spirited reply. “Mr. Burton has never spoken to me of love, probably never will, but you shall not asperse him to me. You had better go, and let me warn you now that the avengers of poor Rod Phelps are on the track of his mur- derer.” He started up with a look of wild rage in his eyes. “Who dares accuse me of the murder of the surveyor ? Enough has been laid to my charge Without that and I will not bear it.” “We know this much, sir; you tried to induce him, the night before and on the morning of the murder, to survey section forty in your name instead of Wallace Burton's. You offered him one thousand dollars for doing this and he re- fused, when you threatened him with signal vengeance if he did not do your bidding.” “ What of that ?” “ Circumstantial evidence goes very far with a vigilance committee,” replied Maud. “I do not accuse you but I warn you to go away at once.” “T thank you for one thing, my dear girl,” he said, with a Sardonic laugh; “you have as good as told me that the Vigilantes are out and that. I am marked down as one of the wae + COmicloooks. com