Beadle's Dime Novels No. 95 — page 14: what you’re looking at

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16 | EPH PETERS. “W’en you fin’-de spring, I aoe you fin’ Miss Maggie, eh dae ‘ “Good for you, Tom. There is some pen in, you yet. Where are the boys ?” ~“ Out in de field; an’ little Dave—dat's my frien’, you know—he says—’ - But the young man was off like an arrow, leaving the negro with his mouth open, and tho unfinished sentence lingering on his tongue. What little Dave said, must always remain a mystery to the end of time. Ronald knew the way to the spring, and, treading lightly, reached the bushes above it and looked down. The forest- maiden was sitting on the edge of the streamlet, formed by the spring. She had thrown off her moccasins, and was paddling with her bare white feet in the water, and singing a low melody. Ronald shook the branches, and ¢alled her name: She sprung up in alarm, and poised herself on her _ bare feet for flight. He called her name again, and this time she recognized his voice, and stood: laughing, as he pushed aside the bushes and came down tovher, .. Her moccasins lay upon the bank, and he looked at them with a quizzical side-Zlance, as he took both-her hands in his, and raised one of them to his lips, after the courtly manner of the time. “Keep that for en Majesty,” said Maggio, ‘s Paine, how came you here ?” “J got Tom*to tell me where. yo were, and eame down at once.” lO. 820i: 6 oti & a “ But wie possible reason can have trotighit Captain Man- nering, of the etnias Rangers, into. the woods, so far from his duty ?” ~ “Don’t badger me, Maggie.’ You know why I am here. Do we not understand each other yet ?” ' She flushed sliglitly,and the beautiful face was hidden a moment from his ardent gaze. “ Yes,” she said, at last, “ you have said you loved me, and I have promised to be your wife, provided you can get my mother’s consent, and provided, also, some handsome fellow, with a colonel’s commission, does not propose, in the mean time. ” COMICHOOKS.COM, |