Beadle's Dime Novels No. 37: Godbold, the Spy — page 113: what you’re looking at

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- SXECUTION OF MOLLY SKIRTS. 112 _ Mr Ormond had used every effort to induce Gideon to form ‘one of the party, but he was inexorable. He could aot be enticed from the vicinity of his reverence. But Mary Wood ‘eldedto the importunities of Isabelle, and consented to aban- n her forest-home and residé with her in Philadelphia. The men-at-arms were still in the service of Mr. Ormond. He hal engaged them “ out and home,” and the day after the funerd of Alice, all were in the saddle and gently moving towaxl the west. The chieftain of the mounted guard no marshaled them from point to point ; he participated in the seneral gloom, and left his men to seek their own adven- ‘s the party proceeded toward the forest, a crowd of sol- diey attracted its attention. A woman whom they surrounded seened to be the object of their, vengeance; and Horace, acompanied by Gideon, rode up to try the effect of his inter- mdiation, whem he perceived that the female was in custody of the provost-marshal’s guard. Surrounded by this rude fece, with a halter around her neck, and beneath the strong tanch of an oak tree, stood the woman who had so misguided ym in the forest. She stood in silence, her eyes glaring upon ‘er triumphant executioners, some of whom were engaged hrowing one end of the rope over the branch from which she was soon to be suspended, while they cried loudly to others to "we it, Just as these frightful arrangéments were cor- pleted, the eyes of Gidecn and the criminal met. Rage and malignity from those of the haltered woman. She rushed to the length of the cord upon her neck, and grinding her teeth and clenching her fists she was about to utter some idec 2 ‘on “wher the signal passed, and in an instant . he air, with those words of horror strangled in her ghroat. It was Molly Skirts, whose’ sex -bad been detected, and who, asa British spy, now perished in the cos- yaaie through which she bad perpetrated so many villainies, - Shocked at thg spectacle, Horace joined his friends and entered the forest. A few hours later Gideon left them, Is- abelle was greatly affected qt the parting ; he bad been so faitnfal both to Alice and Horace. Gideox, too exhibited .4 A - comliclooks.conhn