Beadle's Dime Novels No. 38: The Wrong Man — page 73: what you’re looking at

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4 CORPSE AFLOAT % find ourselves spitted on a snag, or tossed on the top of a wreck-heap.” “ Well, there’s this to say for Hugh, any how,” observed another of the crew, “he did wait for Sawyer as long as any white man could expect in reason; for you know he was monstrous fidgety to set off by sundown.” The keel-boat, during this short dialogue, had drawn so near to the object in the water, that it was now plainly perceived to be a corpse; ‘and the interest which this circumstance oc- casioned put a temporary pause to conversation. The body, on being lifted aboard, was at onze recognized as that of Edward Overton, and the gouts of blood upon his dress, and the wound from which they had flowed, made it evident he had come to his death by violence. course of the boat was now turned toward Adrianop- hich lay on the right bank, a little further down the In a few minutes the long and heavily modeled vessel in under the bluff on which the town was situated. On being made fast, its inmates proceeded to climb the bank, two of them bearing the corpse upon their shoulders. CHAPTER XX. ect And question this most bloody piece of work - Tue village of Adrianopolis, like many towns of the West, had been laid out on a scale of grandeur which must often * have elicited a smile from those who passed through it during the first years of its existence. One who looked at a map of its plan, and saw noted there, in large capitals, Public Square, City Hall, College Place, Avenue I, Avenue IL, etc., must have found some difficulty in persuading himself that this was really intended as an outline of the little scattered hamlet we — ere now to describe. But a8 he who gains a battle, though — comichooks.com