Beadle's Dime Novels No. 38: The Wrong Man — page 116: what you’re looking at

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118 . HE WRONG MAN. peddler, but now prosperous dealer in tin-ware, as he approached the stranger. “Charles Dudley Zlton, my old friend,’ exclaimed the newly-arrived gentleman, as he clasped the hand of Nathan “ And this,” he added, turning to the lady at his side, “ is my wife, Lucy Dayton Elton ; and these are my boys, Enoch and Sedley,” he added, in his hurried introduction. The astonished Nathan could only say, “ Waal, I declare !” as he clasped the hands of all in his own. The crowd soon caught the news, and ere long it became known that the man tried and condemned for the murder of Ned Overton, was again in their midst—as Elton, the law- yer; his renown had penetrated to the vigorous young city which had been the scene of so much sorrow and joy to Charles Dudley, and the notabilities of Adrianopolis hastened to pay their respects to him. Members of the bar, judges, civilians came, but poor Scroggs was “ hurriedly called away,” as Nathan answered, when Mr. Elton asked for the wonderful little prosecutor, whose eloquence had consigned the poor Dudley to the block-house. In the crowd who flocked to the hotel came the shoemaker and the tailor. Nathan was not slow to request them, in @ significant way, to “retire to the shades of their dirty shops,” at the same time pointing significantly to his own ponderous hoot, which moved menacingly on the floor, as if anxious for a little exercise at lifting. The shoemaker and the tailor dis- appeared as suddenly as shadows, sadder, if not wiser men. Nathan had never ceased to be their evil genius; from the day when their gossiping tongues had libeled Dudley, the honest Yankee had covered them with the tribulation of his anger and contempt. The story of Dudley’s escape he soon had occasion to nar- rate. He had not gone down the river, on the night of the catastrophe of the block-house, but wp-stream, for his resi- ence was in Pittsburg, where his family name and fame ict =. 2. if _ —— - Vs already were linked with that city’s prosperity and renown. -Crossin, to the Kentucky shore, his small craft was exchanged fou ed barge, which had been provided by Sedley, om y of the river-men were strongly attached. rei anc nd brave fellows were easily secured to bear the Cconmicoooks.conn