Beadle's Dime Novels No. 38: The Wrong Man — page 69: what you’re looking at

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SECRETING THE BODY. yi were tipped by the moonbeams, which also gave tke bright- ness of quicksilver to the ripples and eddies that played round the fragments which descended into the tide. A litt.e rivulet, near this place, after having pursued its way in darkness through the bed of a gloomy ravine, came gushing and gurg- ling out from the forest, and, mingling its waters with the Ohio, contributed to swell the broad and sparkling volume that rolled through the silent scene. Nothing save the plash and purling of this little brook, as it fretted over the obstruc- tions of its channel, broke the deep stillness which brooded over the Ohio shore. The leaves, charged with dew, hung almost motionless from the branches ; or when slightly stirred, their low, rustling, whispering sound rather heightened than pted the repose of nature. All was so still, so soft, in earth and air, You scarce would start to meet a spirit there.” And a dim, shadowy form that stole out from the jaws of the ravine might almost have been taken for a spirit, so indis- tinct was the outline of its figure, which seemed rather like a mass of darkness deeper than the surrounding gloom, than the substantial form of a man. He moved slowly forward, and — yemed bending under the weight of something which he carried on his back. On reaching the margin of the river, he shrew this from him, and it fell with a dull, heavy sound to the sand. He then flitted across the beach into the mouth of the ravine, whence he directly after again emerged, bearing something which, from his slow and laborious tread, seemed not less weighty, though of smaller compass, than the former burden. Throwing it to the ground at the place where his first load had been deposited, he knelt down beside it, and in that posture continued several minutes. He then rose, and seemed to be dragging something along the sand which required the exertion of all his strength, till, stepping on the trunk of one of the fallen trees, the burden by a strong effort was drawn into the river, when, partly buoyed by the water, there appeared to be less difficulty in sustaining its weight, as it was hauled toward the end of the tree. On reaching that point, there was a sudden plunge, followed by a slight gurg- ling sound, and directly after a number of bubbles floated out Comichooks.com % q