Beadle's Dime Novels No. 309: Mountain Ned — page 62: what you’re looking at

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64 - MOUNTAIN NED, Come to me, Hundo,” cried Silver Lance. “You have ‘Jost her aguin, have you net 2?” The young chief hesitated and did not speak. Silver Lance quietly drew a hatchet from his belt, and looked in the eyes of Hundo. . Knowing. his danger, the man held his ground firmly, and now, for the first time, spoke boldly. * . * Huado has done what he could. Let the chief strike,” Silver Lance hesitated, and finally returned the hatchet to his belt. | “ Hundo can speak ; if he aaa been to blame, the chpinies | can be drawn.” “She is gone,” replied Snode “Tt grieved me ‘to see Blazing Star bound like an enemy, and I loosened the cords on her wrists. I forgot that she bad a knife im her belt and that her bands were small. The pass was dark, and in the darkest part, I beard her laugh, as she leaped up the moun- tuin-side, telling me to say good-by to Silver Lance. If [ have dyne wrong, kill me, for I am ready to die. I chased ' her in the mountains, but who is so fiecet of fvot as Blazing ~ Star? L came back to you, and you may do your will, | Hutide is ready to die if it is the will of the Great Spirit.” ) “ Wundo is free,” replied the chief as he returned his hate . chet to his belt. “There is no wrong in his heart; Blazing Star shall be taken, and when she is ours again I will teach her what it is to betray the great tribe. Look; the lights on the mountain! What are they?” Three green lights had gleamed for a moment before them . and: were gone from their sight. Ten minutes later a drop- ping irregular fire ran along the front, and they knew that the whites had commenced.an attack. Silver Lance rushed to the front and bent bis efforts to the work of driving back the assailing force. Back they went for a moment, and seemed to melt into the earth, but a flash of fire from the prairie whenever a tufted head appeared, showed that they were creeping up in the form of a semicircle, drawing tieir lives closer and closer. Half an hour Jater and shots from tne flanks among the bowlders showed that they were in new danger, and obeying the commands of their chief they fell back still furtber toa place where the pass. entirely screened | them from attacks on the “ae oe o wee Conmiclooolks.comn)