Beadle's Dime Novels No. 95 — page 65: what you’re looking at

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TOM VANISBES. : 67 you have to say, I have nothing to do with it. Duty to you does not require that I should sacrifice myself to a monster. In any thing else you may command me, but in this you can not.” Her mother gave her a malevolent glance, and left the room. As soon as the door closed upon her, the unreasoning black opened again : “ Dar’, Miss Maggie; now min’ I tole you. Wouldn’t let little Dave g0 out and fro’ dem into de ribber. Dat’s your own fault, an’ you.may talk all you min’ to,” cried Tom. “ S’pose we’s gwine to be toted way*up norf, whar’ it frizzes all de y’ar roun’? No, sar, I won't.” Quick to plan and execute, Maggie called Tom to her side. “ Go out into the opening, and wait there until I come to you.” . , Tom obeyed without question. Soon after, taking a pail, she left the house and went down toward the spring. “ere she met Tom.. “ Do you know the way to Fort Henry, Tom ®” “Spects I does,” said the negro. .“ W’at den ?” “ Could you go there, if you tried ?” “Wish. T's dar now. W’at de debble I want to go up norf for? I don’t want; no place for me.” “Where is your canoe ?” “Hid in ‘de bushes down dar’; kep’ it ’way from little ‘Dave. He t’ief dat canoe free four times for go jack-fishin’. Wha’ for him tek’ my canoe? Better he take he own canoe: all de time.” “Tom,” she said, quietly, “ if you take that canoe > aril run away to-night, I shatl not be at all angry.” Tom looked at her with staring eyes. “ Only you had better go to Fort William Meare. When you reach the fort, tell Captain Mannering that I am in danger and need help. Tell him the number ofthe savages» No, I will write it.” She took out her tablets and wrote a hasty statement of her condition and needs, tore out the leaf, and gave it to the negro, | “+ You want Tom to go?” questioned the negro, “ ’Cause he won't run away and leave you unless you send him away.” “ Yes, you must go.” = ~ comiicbooks.conn