Beadle's Dime Novels No. 305: The Girl Scout — page 80: what you’re looking at

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t 84 THE GIRL TRAILER, happen to know who J am? I am Cupid’s ambassador, sent | to make love to you as the proxy of Captain Foix.” “Tf I must be made love to, I think I prefer the principal to the proxy. Why—you impudent littl—” “ Kasy, now, easy,” said the boy, with a laugh. “ Why can’t we be friends, my dear? ‘The devil is never so black as he is painted, and if I had not been unlucky enough to killa man in Huntsville I never should have joined the Secret Brothers. Come, now—come; [Tm a better fellow than you think I am, and you will like me if you know me better.” ~““T shall never forget your cruel words to Gaston Foix, this morning.” : “ Oh, nonsense, nonsense ; you don’t for a moment suppose that I really meant what I said? Not but that some wo- men need a hiding badly enough. I’ve got a cousin some- where in this section, who would be all the better for it, if all reperts are true. Perhaps you know her—a wild girl who rides a horse man-fashion, knocks the ace of hearts out of a card at twenty paces with a pistol, and as far as she can see the spot with a rifle. Jennie Carroll is her name.” “ Your cousin ?” “So they say.” “When I saw your face first, as you rode by our house with the Vigilantes, I thought you looked like Jennie, and if you are indeed her cousin I can easily account for it. What is your name ?” “Garry Forsythe.” “T have heard Jennie speak of you often, but she did not do you justice. You live in Kansas City ?” ’ iT Yes, ” “Poor Jennie has been belied if any one has dared to say she is not a good and pure woman. Oh, my boy, she loved . you, and spoke so happily of the time when you were to visit her father’s house. How it would grieve her if she knew that you had joined this desperate band.” “ She wouldn’t say a word,” replied the boy, who was standing near enough to the dino to be certain that some one was listening outside. “ You belie them now, for they are a band of noble fellows, WhO Only seek their rights,” Ccomicoooks. conn