Beadle's Dime Novels No. 309: Mountain Ned — page 12: what you’re looking at

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14 MOUNTADN NED. know who I am? Beware, lest the same fate which has taken these dead villains should) come upon you,” “T can’t die easier than fighting for @ woman,” answered Ned. “ Wait; she is coming to herself, and if she says she will go with you, well and goud. If not, I only allow it af- ter ’'m whipped.” “ Stand aside; bar the simoon of the desert, the wind of © the sea, but dare not to stop my way !” “ Drop the girld” hissed Mountain Ned, as he drew a heavy bowie from his belt. “ Onee more I ask you for your own sake.” . ra The Flying Scout, still holding the girl upon his arm, laughed in such # fiendish way that the rocks about him re-echoed the sound. His hand came out of the bosom of his garment and something dropped from it upon the earth. There was a loud explosion; a blinding smoke rose, shutting out every object around them, and as the fetid cloud lifted, the young man stood alone upvn the floor of the canon. The Fiying Scout and the girl were goue ! . CHAPTER IL STRANGE SUCCOR. Jaw Puresrer had seen, in his indolent way, the quarrel between the Flying Scout and his friend, and reached the bottom just in time to witness the extraordinary finale. At the sudden explosion, he was for a moment startled out of his propriety. “ Somet’ing’s pu’sted den, Ned,” he said, quietly. “You born fool, why didn’t you chase him ?” roared Ned. “Where did he go; which way ?” “Town, of course,” said Jan. “Der grount opened under his feet unt let him town mit himself unt der gal, Dot vas— der duyvel, sure.” “Why didn't you watch him ?” “Vatch him! I vas plind mit der schmoke, Unt I nefer sehmells so mooeh-sehmell in swansey year,” °° ComichooksTGcom oe ak