Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 91: The Lost Cache — page 89: what you’re looking at

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CLOSE QUESTIONING. 91 ; CHAPTER XY. THE CACHE AT LAST. Mr. BRAINARD recovered as rapidly as Harry Chenault. As his wounds were but flesh-wounds, they soon healed, and he felt as well as ever. | Before ‘his recovery was complete, he was made atvare of the feelings and intentions of Harry Chenault with regard to'his daughter Kate. The greater part of his drafts on St. Louis were drawn upon the firm of Chenault & Co.; and he had kept them, fortunately, about his person, so that they had escaped the ravages of Burt Adams and his Indians. When he learned that the young gentleman was the sonof the wealthy and respected Pierre Chenault, he could not help re- garding the match as a very eligible one, and so expressed himself to Kate, but said that he was not willing to give any definite answer, until he could reach §t. Louis and have an interview with Harry’s father. - - This was’ entirely agreeable to Harry, who ‘assured Kate that the interview could not be otherwise than satisfactory, as ”” the “ old gentleman” would do all in his power to please his only son, and would satisfy her father that that only son was in every respect a proper person to be intrusted with even such a precious treasure as Kate Brainard. Pursuing the subject further, Mr.Brainard had several inter- views with Harry Chenault himself, and in the course of con- “versation occasionally asked him some pretty close questions, to all of which the young gentleman replied plainly and frankly, until he was asked what had brought him into that remote wilderness, when his answers were rather evasive. “We are on a tour of investigation,” said he. ‘ My friend Myers and myself wished to recruit our health and B cain “some experience of life in this wild but delightful region. We desired to examine the country, with a view to future enter- prises, and Myers, who is more scientific than 1 am, thought comicloooks.com