Beadle's Dime Novels No. 310: Foghorn Phil — page 76: what you’re looking at

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73 ‘ FOGHORN PHIL. voluntarily paused upon the beach, and started. back with a shudder, for before them laid the ‘mardered Alf De Ramee, his handsome, wicked face upturned to the pale moonbeams. But, recovering from their sudden horror, they passed the body and sprung into the. canoe, Anainosd having first sent. her own adrift. Then the dusky maid dipped the paddle, and the canoe shot out into the river. Like maddened beasts the two drunken outlaws plunged through the undergrowth and reached the upper side of the island in time to see their canoe, with the three women, glide into the shadows of the west shore. ‘ Curses, ten thousand curses upon the fates, Roche!” burst from Nogle’s lips; “them girls were on this island and have escaped in our canoe! Blind fools we were; I shall call for some of the boys to bring a canoe and we'll follow the jades, Hullo-ah, down thar! hullo-ah, I say !” He was answered from the west shore, and in a few min- ules a canoe put out toward the island. The instant the three females reached the shore, three men came from the woods and met them. “ Anamosa ?” called one of them. “ Ay, ’tis you, Mr. Bumble,” replied Mnecicne “Yes; me and Foghorn Phil, and Colonel Aylesworth.” A cry ‘buret from Pauline’s lips—a cry of joy, and the next moment she was in the arms of her lover. In a few words Anamosa acquainted Phil and Bumble of the manner of their escape ; then, when the outlaws began to yell for a canoe, Bumble answered them, and having spoken a few words to his companions, he sprung into the canoe, paddled along the shore, then turned and moved out toward the island. He soon had the raving outlaws aboard, and was ordered to puli lively toward a certain point on the shore. Bumble did so, but before the shore was reached, Nogle in- formed him of the object of their rage and liaste. The shore was soon reached and the three landed, Then Bumble uttered a low whistle, when Foghorn Phil and Aylesworth approached then. Nogle challenged them, but before an answer could be given, the two confédérates were seized borne to the earth and comiclbooks.com