Beadle's Dime Novels No. 37: Godbold, the Spy — page 24: what you’re looking at

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£2 GIDEON GODBOLD. In this manner Horace and Gideon conversed until they reached the house, where refreshment having been procured, and the horse well stabled, the new friends separated; but when the morning came the false Gideon bad eloped. He had left an hour before the early hour at which H 2d risen, and his object was to escape that gratitude which he found the feelings of his friend so pregnant. Horace was lisappointed, but esteemed the sentiment, and after partazag breakfast, again mounted his charger to pursue his way to Philadelphia. ra | CHAPTER IItI Horace BLYTHE reached the city without further adven- ture. His first care was to provide good quarters for his horse, for he knew not how soon he might again require him. He next changed his traveling dress, and then hastened to deliver his dispatches. For this purpose he summoned a carriage and drove to the residence of General Arnold. It was a princely mansion, and had been the dwelling of the almost regal Penn, to whom once appertained the city, and the State in which it is placed. ; The approach to the entrance, however, was almost imprac- ticable from the crowd of carriages which surrounded it, and Horace was astounded at the elegance of the equipages, and wondered at the occasion which could command such a dis- play. He adopted the pradent course of leaving his own vehicle at a distance, and approaching the General's house on foot. He entered the hall, the door of which was open, — stated his business, and asked if he could be admitted to Gen” eral Arnold. The servant whom he addressed seemed sur- prised, replied that he would inquire, and invited Horace inte comichooks.con qn