Beadle's Dime Novels No. 37: Godbold, the Spy — page 86: what you’re looking at

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seemed 1 know not how to treat this bold -suspicion, for it involved the integrity of no less a personage than the General. Determined to end the colloquy, the messenger replied - “If you'll jist inquire at that there winder that you've been spyin’ at, you'll git an answer, and I guess that the last walk you'll have “il be back to this here tree.” aeTii oh At this the messenger dashed forward; but he could act close his ears to the alarming remark of Gideon: -“ John,” he vociferated, “be careful of your trail, for as gure as you leave @ track behind, yoy’ll be follered.” _ Gideon then cast another look at the untenanted windows of Beverley, replaced with reverence a small packet in his breast, and just as the intensity of the lightning illumined both reverberated from hill to hill, and as the rain descended from: the massive clouds in torrents, he emerged from the shelter of the spreading oak, and followed the figure that he had accosted, which, fearless of the elements as himself, sped forward on its mission. A few days after this incident, Horace called at Beverley to announce that General Washington would leave on the following day*for Hartford, and that he was to be of. the party. The object was to consult with the French, on a combined movement by sea and land against the British. The circumstance had already greatly elated the American army With, Alice there was a more personal event contingent upon the General’s return, for he had intimated ‘to Horace that he should then be happy to listen to the nature of her application. This added greatly to her happiness, and under the smiling influence of hope she bade adieu to Horace; and Isabelle, grateful for his efforts in the cause of her dear friend, acknowl edged that so sweet were the fruits to be gathered on bis return, that she could not lament the short separation, Horace joined General Washington's suit, and as he and others rode gayly toward Hartford, they were cheered by the expectation that the approaching interview would lead to one of the most brilliant and successful campaigns of the war. oN . No sooner had the Commander-in-Chief left, than the efforts comichbooks-;com =