Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 91: The Lost Cache — page 77: what you’re looking at

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STARTLED BUT MOT AFRAID. 79 face toward the good-looking and smooth-spoken young - man. “I was afraid, sir—that is, I. thought,” she stammered, “that there were strangers near us. My father and my bro- ther are close by, and I suppose I ought to call them, as I. was left here to give the alarm if I should see any one.” “There is no occasion for giving any alarm,” answered Harry Chenault, for the young gentleman on the other side of the chasm was, of course, that enthusiastic seeker for hid treasure. ‘Certainly, you need not be alarmed at me, for I assure you that I mean well. Did you recognize the words and air of the little song I sung just now ?” “ Oh, yes, sir,” answered Kate, with more blushes; “ I re- member that I sung that verse one night, very foolishly, think- ing that I was quite alone at this place, and I was answered by a voice from the other side of the ravine; but I do not know in what words I was answered, for I was really fright- ened, not expecting to hear a human voice in this wilderness.” “JT hope that your memory, or my voice, may improve with time, for I never heard a song that sounded so sweet to me, and I tried to answer it as well as I could at the moment... I am sorry that you do not remembér my answer. Shall I re- peat it ?” ; bis: “Oh, no, sir! By no means! I think I must speak to my father or my brother, for I was told to call them if any stranger came near this place, and they will surely say that I have done wrong.” : “JT am sure they can not blame you. Have they a camp near here ?” “We have a camp ; : it is not far off,” ic dai: Kate, aie was fearful of compromising her own companions, though she could not think that any harm would happen to them through such a handsome and agreeable young man. “Jt would be safer for them to come over and camp with us, for we have a pretty strong party, and have built a fort, so that we do not fear the Indians. We have had one aight with them, and we whipped them well.” “ Was it the sound of your guns, then, that we heard the other night ?” 7 “TI suppose so—ours and those of the red-skins, Don’t comicbooks.conm