Beadle's Dime Novels No. 85: The Fugitives — page 65: what you’re looking at

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A BLANKET. 67 of help or they may move again. You know it was that which started us so soon this afternoon.” During this conversation, the ladies had stood side by side, so far from the flame that their faces and forms were only oc- casionally visible. No attempt at flight or escape upon their part could succeed, and indeed none was contemplated. The eagle eyes of the Indians, though seeming to take no note of them or their movements, never allowed them to be fully out of | sight for a moment, When the fire was fully ablaze, and enough branches had been collected to keep it bright, for several hours, one .of the savages spread his blanket on the teens and signed for the ladies to take it. “ Shall we accept it?” asked Annie, who could not ential smiling at the grotesque politeness of the red-man. “ Yes, he may be offended if we refuse, and there is no occasion to make him feel ill toward us. “ He feels ill enough already, for that matter,” said Annie, coming forward and taking her seat upon the blanket. The mother joined her, and the two men seemed rather gratified at the docility and good nature exhibited by their fair captives. “ Now,” said the daughter, “ we have rather a difficult part to play. We must be obedient, and cheerful, and yet act as though ‘we had no hope save in the clemency of these knights of the wood.” “You seem to have changed your disposition since leay- ing home,” smiled Mrs. Abingdon. “You were then fiery enough to brave his fury on a very trivial matter.” , | ‘““ He insulted me, and let him do any thing like that again,” replied Annie, the snap coming back into her dark eyes. ‘I am not afraid of them, and if I didn’t feel almost certain there would be some one along this way before morning, I think they would hardly find me so tractable.” “Tt is best to remain so, dear child, whether our’ friends “come or not. ‘The savages are always better disposed toward the prisoners who do not occasion them trouble.” “Tf Arthur has the prudence to keep out of danger, I look Epon it as almost certain that he will bring some one back with him.” “He is young, but he has lentes a great dosh dines Comicbhooks. conn