Beadle's Dime Novels No. 310: Foghorn Phil — page 31: what you’re looking at

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A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. 38 Keen eyas, ‘and carry both the Injin and captain’s gun over '0 the boat for the inspection 0’ the hull crew.” Then he stepped out before Du Busk and said : “Now, Jake, you crow on yer hearin’, and knack o’ dis- lnguishin’ sounds, so I reckon you can tell me whether that War or war not the crack 0’ the captain’s gun 2” It war the captain’s, thank God,” responded Du Busk, With an air of relief. “L’ve no more to say,” replied Phil, with a self-satisfied lone, and laying the three rifles aside, he assisted his compan- '0n to carry the wounded captain down to the canoe. Then he returned for the rifles, but, to his surprise and “Stonishment, he found that both Rhymm’s rifle and that of © Indian were gone; and in looking about for some clue to Cir sudden departure, he discovered, to’ his horror and ‘Mazement, that the supposed dead Indian warrior had also YSteriously disappeared |! Like a hound freed from the leash, the old scout bounded “Way into the woods in seatch of the cunning foe. ‘ ? CHAPTER VI. HIUMAN BADGERS. Fognorn Pur did not extend his search for the savage “t from the river, for, when his rage had cooled off some- What, he saw that his efforts would be fruitless, and might fad him into unknown danger. So he retraced his steps to he tiver, cursing his stupidity for not having secured the sav- ige’g scalp the moment he and Du Busk had landed. After ul] Was said and done, however, he did not care so much for the red-skin’s escape, nor the twitting he was likely to get fom his friends in consequence, but the loss of the two rifles Proved the source of the greatest regret and disappointment, for With one of those rifles was a secret, which he wished to divulge as svon as he reached the boat. To attempt this now, without the evidence to sustain him, comiclboooks.conn