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blows told him that Nokomis, the hunted, was ‘ fighting his last battle. “ reathless, but with ready rifle, the little | ia mountain hunter stood at the mouth of the cor- ridor listening to the conflict which he could not see. He knew that the Indian hunters had closed in upon the Upas like wolves upon the weakened quarry, for there were no mad blows now, only the noise of the death-grapple of giants, The struggle ceased so abruptly that Piney Paul started and sprung to the fire for a torch, * With one in his hand he returned to the spot and flung it, blazing wildly, down the passaze, It revealed no men struggling for the mastery ; - but instead an object which bore a semblance to ie human form, was creeping slowly toward im. It came on until the glitter of the deep-set eyes told the boy that it was the Upss. With a great effort he dragzed himself from >" the opening and uttered a cry of triumphcs he eins - cast something, grotesque in its hideousness, at Pex the boy’s feet. ** Scalps! by the holy stars!” cried Piney Paul, . recognizing the trophies. ‘‘ And you came out best at last, Nokomis?” There was no reply, but the smile told the boy that his words were understood. | este. Nokomis flung his pnieg knife wpon the heap; : then, actuated by somes horrid impulse, crept forward, and picking up the blade, crove it re- vengefully through tho scalps, effectually pin- *. Byes ning them to the ground! It was the last act of his life, for with his a. hand still clutching the knife as if he would oa hold the scalps down, he gave one gasp and fell i _ over on his side. Sm oe Nokomis, the hunted, was dead; but be lay in : yee triumph upon the twelve scalps of his inveterate at. trailers! - ie ** Nokomis, you were brave,” said Piney Paul, Bey! 54k ‘but you left me for Cecil Crane’sgold. P’raps Ree) tes ie you wouldn’t be hero if you had stuck to me. Fay“ See, But it’s too late now. Vill leave you here to re: > a guard this place.” . Ss The boy turned back to Cicely, who had, with much anxiety and interest, awaited the end of the battie. $ There was an eagerness in her face which in- aa stantly attracted the boy’s attention, a ots ‘‘ Paul,” she said, in a whisper, ‘‘ there is a Pier 2 in person in yon shadow. Twice I have caughta —S—ee—————eeeeeeee a eS SS SE * movement there. I am not feverish now. have been awake all the time.” ae ¥- The boy turned toward the dark spot indicated } by the girl, and instantly stepped forward. = ioe But he had not advanced far before a figure ‘ee stepped from the shadows, and with flashing ~~ eyes and a knife stood before him. —" ee It was Pelosee! | Se Piney Paul threw himself between the witch es as arxl Cicely, for the light in the eyes of.the former | —__ and the presence of the knife betrayed her in- wae toution. > Mi *““No!” cried Piney Paul, meeting her look = with defiance. ‘‘ Your jealousy has got the up- ee pte per hand of you. I want no following now, . = f you offer to kill Cicely, Vl drive a bullet through you. Itold you this once before. I will not tell you again! Go back to Ocotoc, and tell him that the girl whom he stole long ago is : ae - going back to her people. I was going to see ~ im, but what he knows, I guess I know well enough!” Peloses did not reply; but stood undecided where she fad halted. Took up and see the face of Watchemene- toc!” cried Piney Paul, pointing toward the ceiling of the cavern. ‘‘He wants to see you~ ——- touch the white girl!” oa, ee The red witch looked up and uttered a wild + ery of horror and fright. ’ The eyes of the picunsed ogre seemed to scin- ... tillate with true fiendishness, and the bat-like wings appeared to move! jes ~ jo oe With a cry, she started back; the knife drop- <<. bs Se os from her hands, and, springing over the =~ dead body of Nokomis, she disappeared! | ~~ * THs the last of her!” said Piney Paul. “She'll go back to Ocotoc, and perhaps fling ~~ herself among the wolves, Creeks and crashes! the Old Harry must have held my hand when I _made his picture up there!” SOE EE EOE = a - —_—_- -— ~~ ——_ oe ee ciety of early New York when Piney Paul, ac- companied by Cicely, clad in her fantastic forest garb, appeared and claimed the wealth of Cecil rane, Blanche, the villain’s haughty wife, tried to laugh the twaiu’s pretensions down; but Paul, who stood in her luxurious drawing-room, brought his fist down upon the table and cried with emphasis, whilo his eyes flashed fire: “Laughing proves nothing! Creeks and crashes! the girl's got to have her rights, and I’m going tosee that she gets orory shilling due her, I mean business! The will gives your wealth to her at thisday. Say sbe is not Cicely Draeme, and Pll tramp back there and bring old Ocotoc himself here. Ha! that hits the mark! Business is business! You must give up all, This house suits Cicely and me, We want to live hore by and by.” The boy was the hero in the city, as he had been in the forest. Ita carried his point, and the wealth belong- ing to Cicely was restored .o her. Ocotoc’s services were not required beyond the confines of his island, and Pelosee, by return- ing suddenly, startled his ogreship, As for Patagan, he did not seek Cicely; but made the best of her absence, and soon after- ward died. Tarsus Nightwell was never heard from after his last encounter with Piney Paul. Oldfoot, he undoubtedly perished in the wilder- ness, a victim to the love of gold. Many years afterward a party of men found a wonderful cave among the cliffs of the Au- sable; it seemed a veritable galaxy of pictures, and the roof was covered by the head and wings | of a demon! But the cave was not tenanted, except by a Jot of bones, which marked the last resting-place of Nokomis. I need not add that Piney Paul—Paul Bur- leigh, as his true name was—wedded the Little Arrow of the Adirondacks. The reader has an- ticipated this happy denouement, Thus the wild mountains lost their little hun- ter, and Right, triumphing in the wilderness, ' thrived in the city, to the delight of honest people! THE END. ~ Beadle’s Half-Die Library. BY HARRY HAZARD, $28 Arkansaw Jack ; or, The Scourge of the Mines. 829 Red-Skin Tomy or, Phe Demon's Trail, 842 The Mountain Devil; or, Yellow Jack, the Outlaw. BY WILLIAM . EYSTER, 190 Dandy Darke} or, The Tigers of High Pine. 210 Faro Frank; or, Dandy Darke’s Go-Down Pards, BY W. J. MAMILTON, 68 The Red Brotherhood; or. The Twelve Avengers, 66 Single Mand; or, A Life fora Life, 72 Mad Tom W eatern, the Texnn Ranger. 887 Ben Bird, the Cave King; or, Big Petw’s Scoop, BY FREDERICK DEWEY. 818 Cimarron Jack, the King-Pin of Rifle-Shots. 478 Tangemund, the Desert Vetective. 542 The Canyon Pards. BY LIEUT, H. D. PERRY, U. 8, N. R The Bucraneer of the Bay. AG ne Bey Pealiere sc :k Vow Well Mantet2 2 192 Captain Kit; or, The Mystery of Montauk Point. BY GEORGE C, JENKS. b Git Thar Owney, the Unknown. 408 Git Thar Oaney’n Pledge. 618 The Demon Doctor. 191 putsie Billy, the Boy Bullwhacker; oz, The Doomed rieen. 194 Buffalo Bill’s Bet; or, The Gambler Guide. , BY COLONEL DELLE SARA, 108 The Lion of the Sea}; or, The Vailed Lady. | 186 Oool Desmond ; or, The Gambler's Big Game, BY JOUN J. MARSHALL. 40 Roving Ben, A Story of a Young American. — v7 The Outlaw Brothers ; or, The Captive of the Harpes. %: ~~ -Safety at ast seemed breaking over the head BY BRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG. = Be of Cicely Draeme. She held out her hand to 89 Ealand Thm t or,The Pat of the Family, .- 2 5 Pine Paul, and said: . | ee 91 The Captain of the Club; or The Rival Athletes. bs . oe feel that the trail is leading us out of the | 101 Jack Harkaway in New York. S ‘+ woods. The lodge of co ties eople does not panier ares ¢ 2 seem faraway.” - BY FRANK DUMONT. + It was not distant, though many miles stretch- te Bsn Teta’ weary lengths bolwaan it and the cave. * There was commotion in the fashionable so- —-— i- 4 . 4 ¥ Ty Rap os s : a f ” . : 43 Ls ‘ Ay ere t iy a > ay 14 : ; » Kh. Pe) B®, we ‘ ; + a Way i cu ‘, C i yt ~) ‘2 AG "y Seal thee ae aS { 4 r : ’ 7 : . oe ~* » ‘ so in - F i ! af fi j . “4 ype fe as , ab ‘ : a * he , ' ¢ oe J 4 7 77) N¢} 4 + + AEF _ . — ~ 120 The Branded Hand; or, The Man of Mystery, 127 ild-F ire, the Bos« of the Road ; 140 Bilne Binzea; or, The Break 0? Day Boys of Rozky Bar 171 Ebony Dan; or, The Rival Leagnes, — Ps 185 Evil Eye; or, The Vultures of the Rio Grande. © ° ee Like Simon. A475 The Black Ship. 1 BY JAMES L. BOWEN eee 107 One-Eyed Sim; or, The Abandoned Forest Home, 110 The Black Steed of the Prairies. A Story of Texas. BY CAPT. MARK WILTON. ao 256 Young Kentuck; or, The Red Lasso. ~ 4 270 Blizzard Ben; or, The Riot at Keno Camp, . . q 286 Josh, the Boy Tenderfoot, BY J. W. OSBON. 469 The Rival Glants of Nowhar’. 498 Caetuse Burr, the Man from Hard Luck. 587 Old Buckeye, the Sierra Shadow. BY GEORGE WALDO BROWNE, 86 Dandy Rock the Man from Texas. 90 The Dread Rider; or, The Texan Duelist. 99 The Tiger of Taoa; or, Dandy Rock’s Angel. 115 The Mad Miner; or, Dandy Rock’s Doom, Pry 181 The Golden Hand; or, Dandy Rock to the Rescue, fe 164 Dandy Rock’s Pledge; or, Hunted to Death. . 178 Dandy Rock’s Rival; or, The tiaunted Maid of Taos, gt BY ©. DUNNING CLARK. \ 185 Captain Pauly; or, The Boy Spy of the Mountains, an 280 The Yankee Rajah; or, The Fate of the Black ay = BY CHARLES EF. LASALLE. ; 50 Burt Bunker, the Trapper. . 52 The White Buffalo. A Tale of the Northwest. * IBY CAPTAIN FRED. WHITTAKER, 15 The Sea-Cat; or, The Witch of Darien. 29 The Dumb Pages or, The Doge’s Daughter, 48 Dick Darling, the Pony Exprese Rider. 150 Lance und Lasse; or, The Children of the Chaco. 154 The Sword Ibunteras or, The Land of the Elephant Riders. 159 The Kock ORR nj or, Skipper Jabex Coffin’s Crulse to the Open Polar Sea. 200 The Boy Bedoutney; or, The Brothers of the Plamed Lance, 214 Wolfgang, the Robber of the Rhine. 249 Milo Romer, the Animal King; or, The Round the World Wanderer. 265 The Tiger Tamer; or, The League of the Jungle. R81 Black Nick, the Demon Rider. 895 California Joe's War Trail, ' BY MAJOR E. L. 8T. VRAIN, 292 Sancho Pedro, the Boy Bandit, " 804 Lendville Nick, the Boy Sport. r 812 Redtop Rube, the Vigilante Prince, ee BRB Rrimatone Bob, and His Lightning Horse Quartette, ~ B52 ‘Tobatone ‘Tom, the Arizona Boy of * Sand,” ay Boa iy oa a. . , an ‘ nV reatier, + 871. Kingbolt Chris, the Young Hard-Shell Detective, | B80 Avalanche Alf, the Foothills Guide. 890 Jaguar Joe, of the Mount in Mall-Line, BY J, ©, COWDRIOK. 860 Silver-Masak, the Man of Mystery. 869 Shasta, the Gold bk lug z or, For Seven Years Dead, 420 qhe Detective’s Apprentice; or, A Boy Without ame en} 424 Cibuta Johny or, Red-Hot T mes at Ante Bar, 480 Sandy Sam, the Strevt Scout, 467 Disco Dan, the Daisy Dude 400 Brondway Billy, the Bootblack Bravo, 506 Redlicht Ralph, the Prince of the Road, 14 Broadway Billy’« Boodle. 524 The Engineer Detective 586 Broadway Billy’s ‘ Difikiity.” MISCELLANEOUS AUTHORS, — 4 The Wild-Horse Hunters. By Capt Mayne Reid and Frederick Whittaker. 9 Adventures of Baron Munchansen, 12 Gulliver’s Travels, By Dean > wilt, e 14 Aladdin; or, The Wonderfal Lamp, 16 Roblnsen Crusoe. (27 Ilustrations,) 18 Sindbad the Sailor. His Seven Voyages, 22 The Sca Serpent; or, The Boy Robinson Crusoe, By Juan Lewis. 88 The Ocean Bloodhound; or, The Red Pirates of the Carribers, By S, W. Pierce. 86 The Boy Clown; or, The Queen of the Arena. By Frank ' §, Finn. 88 Ned Wylde. the Boy Scout. By Téxas Jack. , f . S51 she Bey Rifles; or, The Underground Camp. By Archie oe *. trons : 95 The Rival Roveray or, The Freebooters of the Missisaippt. By Liene.-Col, Haxeltine. 98 Robin Wood, the Outlawed Earl; or, The Merry Men of Green- wool, By Prof, Gildersleeve. 105 O14 Rube, the Hunter; or, The Crow Captive. By Captain Hamilton Holmes. = e° 112 The Mad Wunter; or, The Cave of Death, By ey hey vat es 124 Bivvy, the Texan; or, The Young Champion. 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