Beadle's Dime Novels No. 38: The Wrong Man — page 79: what you’re looking at

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THE MARRIAGE AND ARREST. 82 cwh., though a slow-minded man, was well-educated and zeal- ous) had been for some minutes engaged in fervent prayer, when a near trampling of horses interrupted the sileuce of * devotion. In a moment after, five or six persons, headed by Hugh Overton, broke rudely into the room. A visible shudder passed over the frame of the old man when the noise was first heard; and as the party entered, he buried his face deeper in his hanjs, and his heart beat so vivlently that it might almost have been heard knocking against his sides. “You «re our prisoner !” exclaimed two or three voices in the same breath. The old man started to his feet—but it was Dudley that the officers had seized. The room now presented a scene of the. utmost confusion. Lucy, with a strong effort of self-control, had stifled the shriek that was rising to her lips; but sunk rrified upon a chair, her bosom throbbing and panting with ultuous and complicated emotions. Her uncle looked the ery picture of wretchedness. His knees trembled, and his was alternately flushed and pale, as his eye shifted with a uick, tremulous, amazed glance from the officers to the pris- . ‘The countenance of poor Cato faded to a hue which, it been his standing color, might have rendered his pater- nity a matter of some doubt; and the missionary, still mechanically repeating broken phrases of his prayer, looked on with eyes and mouth wide open, utterly at a loss to com- prehend the meaning of the scene. Dudley, though taken by surprise, was the first to recover self-possession. On being informed of the nature of the accu- sation, he whispered something to Lucy, which was intended to reassure her, and turning to Sedley—who seemed to shrink within himself as the eye of Dudley rested upon him—said in » low and emphatic tone, that all would yet go well. The . party immediately set off toward Adrianopuiis. conicloooks.con