Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 91: The Lost Cache — page 61: what you’re looking at

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one thing sartin: we must go to work and make’ this place stronger, and must keep ‘closer in camp, fur Burt Adams is about, and we can’t be too keerful.” Harry Chenault and Myers cast at each other glances of dis- may, and winked very solemnly. CHAPTER X. DOWNS AND UPS. Burt ApaAms, who had been the cause of so much mental anxiety to Green and Farrar, and of so much bodily labor on the part of Chenault and Myers, was not idle, but ‘was at work with brain and hand. He was determined to prosecute his - search for the gold and* the girl—the girl and the gold—and felt confident of finding both in that vicinity. . After his unsuccessful assault upon Fort Myers, he told his followers that they had made a slight mistake, and had attacked the wrong party. He assured them that the train which they had expected to find was somewhere in the neighborhood, or might soon be expected, and that they would have no diffi- culty in capturing it, if they would follow his directions, and not rush on blindly, of their own accord, as they had lately done. As they were intensely indignant becamse of their costly failures, anxious to retrieve their losses, and eager for revenge, he easily persuaded them to remain quiet, until he should re- connoiter the country and. gain some intelligence that would benefit them. In reconnoitering for their benefit, he intended, like a sensible scoundrel, to consider his own interest in the first place, and to seek the gold and the abc girl and the old. ? : Alone, and armed with his rifle, his long double-edged knife and his hunting-knife, he went to the deep hole, into which one of Mus-to-qua’s young men had fallen. He shuddered, ag he looked down in the yawning cavity, and thought how near’ an escape he had from being swallowed up in its unknown ANOTHER GOLD-SEEKER 63 should take him to be a Kanuck or an Englisher. Thar’s P | ee ’ ‘ & comicbooks.com