Beadle's Dime Novels No. 37: Godbold, the Spy — page 53: what you’re looking at

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. DANGERS OF THE FOREST. Gl “PTI tell him, sir, Pl tell him,” exclaimed’ the aged mes- senger, with a vigor of voice and flash of the eye that re- minded his hearers of the force of his youth; “that’s the distinction he wants—the approbation of his brother pat- In such conversation as this, congenial t the hearts of hos and guest, sat for some hours the aged traveler and Mr. Or- mond, until Isabelle reminded her father not only of the late- ness of the hour, but of the immense fatigue that their visitor must have undergone, and soon they retired to rest; and while Isabelle, in the visions of her golden slumber, saw the crown of victory placed on the brow of Horace by no less a than Fame, Alice sat in her lonely chamber revolv- in her mind a plan of inducing the sage to guide her to the ear of Washington. In the morning the messenger announced that he was thoroughly recovered from his toil, and that he must retrace his path to the Highlands on the following day. He was courteously inflexible in his resolution, which Mr. Ormond, who had vainly attempted to defeat it, attributed to an obsti- nacy inherent to great age, and therefore he yielded to what he termed an endemic. : Later in the day, when Jsabelle and her father were from home, Alice, perceiving the messenget in a retired arbor in the garden, joined him. shee “ You are resolved to return to-morrow, good futher?” said Alice, interrogatively, as she seated herself beside him. « Yes, lady,” he replied. ; “Are there no dangers on the journey,” she continued, “that you, so incapable of defense, so fearlessly undertake srs ee « "There gers, lady,” replied the messenger, “ but tly from thieves and rogucs, which are ’most as jn the forest as the trees ; howsomever, F-escape some by my poverty, some by my age, and some by my contriy- ances. wie you guide a companion through these perils, as ye one T wouRdn’t trust” = comJcbdooks.com