Beadle's Dime Novels No. 37: Godbold, the Spy — page 43: what you’re looking at

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—_¥ PLANNIN® THE ATTACK. 4\ that “kere muddy path, for, without some guide you'll all be awarmped ; thirdly, as I shall begin the night with blood so Yl end, and fight by your sides till we pull down the Britishers’ My advice is, let the hour of attack be early night instead of early morning.” . All—soldiers as they were, and accustomed to the flow of blowd—were horrified at the cool manner in which this seem- mg gladiator suggested the sacrifice of fifty lives by his own hand as a prelude to the exploit. Washington, hitherto a istener, bad turned from him in disgust; and Horace, fearing some desangement in his mind, was about to intercede in his behalf, when Wayne proposed to him another question ; “Pray, what reward do you expect for this Herculean labor ?” he said. | “The approval of that there glorious patriot and soldier that’s jist turned his back on me,” said Gideon. | “Your terms are extortionate,” replied Wayne; “ but we may think of some other mode of doing you justice, so we will retain you as our prisoner.” ae “Them terms ain't suitable to me, General,” replied the undisturbed Gideon; “so.p’taps Lieutenant Blythe ’ll be kind enough to say that he don’t think me worthy o’ bein’ among your captives.” Horace responded at once to the appeal. At the sound of his name General Washington again faced the party, to whom Horace advanced, saying: “T am at a loss to comprehend the extraordinary this Gideon Godbold_has just uttered; but I believe to be an unflinching friend to his country and its cause. I owe to him my life. When I bore your dispatches to Phil- adelphia, I was assailed by # band of murderers in the forest, and was delivered from my peril by the intrepid conduct of this man He was then unknown to me; but, perceiving that I wore a uniform devoted to your service, ke determined either to rescue me from death or die with me.” A grateful feeling instantly beamed in that benevolent eye, = was always parceptible whenever that great man saw plified in the humbler class a spirit of devotion to his _ He signed to Horace to speak to Gideon, to whom he thought he would be more communicative. commicloooks.conn