Beadle's Dime Novels No. 38: The Wrong Man — page 99: what you’re looking at

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THE DEPARTURE, - 101 Through the whole of the following day Sedley was absent from his cabin. Before he departed, he held a long conver- 8ation with Lucy, and gave a number of minute and partic- ular orders to Cato, which, to impress them more certainly upon his memory, he repeated several times. During his absence, Lucy and the black bustled about with a degree of activity which presented quite a contrast with the usually Serene manners of the one, and the somewhat grotesque motions of the other. The portraits which had graced the rude walls were taken down, the books removed from the hanging shelyes, and sundry boxes and bundles scattered round the room indicated preparations for some unusual step. An old cat, which had long been the privileged tenant of the chimney-corner, moved mewing and fidgeting about, and cast uneasy looks around, as if its instinct informed it of the mean- ing of the bustle. At last the arrangements were all completed, and while Cato employed himself in removing the packages to some appointed place, Lucy strolled out into her garden to pluck One more bouquet from the place she had nurtured with as- Siduous care—to take one more look, before the light of sun- Set faded wholly from the scene, of those objects which had been to her as friends since the dawn of recollection. The nimble motions of the negro had allowed her not much time for meditation. He soon returned to the cabin, and as he again issued thence, with a trunk on his shoulder, and two or three bundles in his hand, he called to inform her that he was now carrying his last load. Following the boy in silence, and Casting many a lingering look behind, Lucy wound down the Rorthern declivity of the bluff. conicldoolkks.conn