Beadle's Dime Novels No. 92: The Twin Scouts — page 18: what you’re looking at

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20 THE TWIN. SCOUTS. ask you, while she is: out of hearing, do you think it is safe for us to stay here? Your opinion, Alph !”’ The young man mused, . “TI don’t know how to answer you, Middleton. Here you have every thing nice about you, and things look thriving enough. If you go to the settlements, you must expect to come back to find your house and negroraner oe in ruins, and your crops destroyed.” He looked about him. The house was a neat little. log- structure, strongly built, as was the custom of the times, the logs dovetailed into each other upon the ends. There were two windows in front, which could be closed at any time by heavy shutters, and secured by bars. The doors were of ‘oak, and would require considerable force to move them on their hinges. To the rear of the house, which fronted on the river, a long row of neat log-cabins served as quarters for the negroes, who | could be seen passing in and out, attending to their household duties. - Alph sighed, and the sigh was echoed by Middleton. “It does seem hard to give it all up, when every thing is beginning to look so nicely. Iam so happy here, away from the busy life to which I have been accustomed ; I revel in the sweets of nature here. “There is no such country, take man’s . depravity away, upon the face of the earth. Must I give it up 9” “JT don’t deny that there is danger. You yourself know well the nature of the savage in time of war. The bulk of the tribes are inourfavor. But in all tribes,even the Mohawk, there are some fellows who will range the border, and commit depredations on the settlers. I know some of these fellows. We have many in our service who can not be depended on. The nature of an Indian is to be treacherous; and these of the Six Nations carry it out to the utmost.” “ Not the chiefs ?” “ No, not the chiefS; that is, the older ones, for there are some young hotheads among the chiefs who would be led into mischief by any subtle tongue: and the arch fiend pamiscHt 4 is nothing to these fellows who are against us.” -“ Which ones ?” © “The Jesuits.” 3 | : “You are right. They are a bloodthirsty, crafty, and COMMGCHOOkS.COMm