Beadle's Dime Novels No. 96: Little Moccasin — page 27: what you’re looking at

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THE CAROMINE. 29 “Yes—a tall, handsome fell@yv, With large, graylsh-blue eyés, and light hair.” “Yes; I saw him there myself. I remember him per- fectly.” “ You /—~you saw him there yourself! Why, who on earth are you? and what business had you there ?” “ QOh-ho !’ muttered Charley, with a low whistle. “Let me finish,’ continued the major, without changing countenance, though he turned away somewhat hurriedly from the searching eyes of Perry, and the giggling leer of Charley. “ Yes, my friends, yes; I will not deny it. I was one of the twenty-three strangers who went on board the ‘ ee to sleep that night—" | “To sleep!’ | | “ Yes—not being able to find lodgings ashore. Most of them, and perhaps all but five or six, were wholly ignorant of the purpose we had in view. _ I am sure of this; for I talked freely with them in the early part of the evening. when they first;eame aboard ; and well do I remember what young Perry Said, and how he looked, when they began telling stories about a farmer: -boy who turned out to be our young friend Smith— Peter Smith. “Well,” continued the major, after taking breath and a whiff 0’ the pipe, “ most of the strangers had turned in. There was no watch on deck, and I was waiting to hear from the fellows who had promised ta be there. = last, I con- cluded to go after them—” “Stop there, if you please. Look at me \—dia you ever see me before?” said Perry. ; “TI think I have—ycs—but where I can not say for, the » life of me.™® it Among the men you expected, was there not one by the ainly was. Now that you have mentioned his ) ber it perfectly.” , , sir, that was the name I took. The notice left for me eived by poor Arthur, while I was away after the others and—and—he took my place /—and I never knew a word of it until the affair was all over—but go on! go on! 1 can bear any thing now,” covering his face with both hands, - comicbooks.com