Beadle's Dime Novels No. 310: Foghorn Phil — page 69: what you’re looking at

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WHO IS THE TRAITOR? 71 CHAPTER XII, BELZY BUMBLE PUTS IN AN APPEARANCE. AFTER leaving the flatboat, Foghorn Phil paddled. his canoe rapidly back toward the sunken island, where savages and whites were struggling alike together with the tossing, foaming waves. Wherever he saw a head above the water, he paddled toward it, and if it was a friend, assistance was rendered, The first he found was Colonel Aylesworth, who was nearly exhausted, having been carried several feet. under the water when the island disappeared. : In a few minutes all the survivors of the catastrophe were rescued. Five were missing, and must have been killed or drowned. Foghorn Phil related how the captain, Frank Bassett, and himself had been carried away upon the raft at the beginning of the fight; and narrated all, that had transpired under his own eyes during the moments that passed between the time he had discovered enemies under the island, and the begin- ning of the fight, concluding with a slight intimation of there being a traitor in their party. But, the latter was thrown out as a feeler. : “You mout as well come out flat-footed Phil,” said Lute Soper. “I think jist as you do, that thar’s sumthin’ loose somewhar, and I think we’ll find it’s with Jake Du Busk.” “J think Du Busk is.an accessory,” replied Phil. “Then you think there is more than one traitor, do you?” - asked Colone] Aylesworth. | “Td almost risk my lifeon’t, colonel, The thing war all set up to spake us in on that island, afore we got there. A traitor told "em that we war goin’ to land thar, and so the red varlets got, under the island afore we got in site o’ it. Now look here; when Jake Du Busk went ashore as scout, it was understood. that we'd keep on till the mouth o’ the Milk was passed; but gittin’ into trouble, we changed our no- tion and concluded to stop at that fbland. and done 80. in_less ae