Beadle's Dime Novels No. 305: The Girl Scout — page 93: what you’re looking at

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HEMMED IN. 97 ~& running noose in one end and flung the other over a branch. ‘Ten minutes after they joined the company and silently fell into line. They had left the lariaf behind them! The band marched on under the solemn shade. CHAPTER XIV. THE SECRET OF THE ISLAND. Some foreboding of his impending fate hung over Gaston Foix. ‘He was restless, and found himself continually going ‘to the door of the cabin to look out into the gloom. He lay down and tried to rest but found the effort vain. He sprung from his uneasy couch and rushed out into the forest, where he wandered aimlessly up and down for over half an hour, when he again returned to the island. “There is death in the air,” he cried; with an uneasy glance about him. “I feel it as I walk and it«seems as if the jim- pending fate hung over me. Whence Hemaan this. Warning for which I can not account ? diblsive tis: “The ‘men I have murdered are all about me. I seem to feel them near me, in the very air which I breathe. «Why did I kil that poor fellow in the swamp this morning ? “Why did I tumble that other horse and man over that terrible cliff? I am a murderer, and shall I meet a murderer’s fate ? Ab !” He saw dark forms moving in the edge of the thicket and knew at a glance that his enemies were upon him. At any other time the man would have turned and fought like a tiger, but now he was cowed, and turning swiftly on his heel without a ery, he ran back among the cabins. Silently, but swiftly, the cabins were hemmed in by the Vigilantes, and then they rushed in with yells of vengeance. Caught in a trap, all the Secret Brotherhood could do was to turn upon the enemy like tigers and fight) desperately for, vengeance, since they could not save their lives. It was an awful combat, and when the bloody strife was Cconmiclooolks.comn)