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aaa THE WRONG MAN, inted place, Lucy strolled out into her garden to pluck one more bouquet from the place she had nurtured with assiduous care—to take one more look, before the light of sunset faded wholly from the scene, of those objects which had been to her as friends since the dawn of recollection. The nimble motions of the negro had allowed her not much time for medi- tation. He soon returned to the cabin, and as he again thence, with a trunk on his shoulder, and two or three bundle in his hand, he called to inform her that he was now carrying his last load. Following the boy in silence, and casting n.any & lingering look behind, Lucy wound down the nothern decliv- ity of the bluff. CHAPTER XIII. WAITING AND PARTING. See the light pinnace Draws nigh to the shore, Swiftly it glides At the heave of the oar.—Prrcrvat. He came not though the night grew on, He came not thougi the winds plead * come.”"—Norrox. THE moon had begun to shed a feeble glimmer through the > ‘vilight air, when a small boat, propelled by two oars or pad- dies, glided into. the shadowy Gore of a ravine, through which a little tributary of the Ohio babbled on its way to jom the mightier stream. A female sat in the after-part of e boat, her n partly hid by the shed or covering which extended over nearly half its length. A black strip- ling, of some sixteen or seventeen, who acted as oarsman, sprung lightly to land, and, after securing the le vessel to a stake, turned and proceeded quickly forw clambering _ along the side of the ravine. The female eyed his progress : with an appearance of intense interest, and seemed to tremble whenever a stone, loosened by his tread, rattled down inte the water. A turn in the ravine svon snatched him fic m he? ht. ys iE ke course of the deep dell or gully, at the mouth of which "the boat had paused, ran near the foot of the mound on whicb the block-house was erected, and thence proceeded westward tira Sening that gap between the bluffs in the back-ground, acrost which it has been mentioned that a rude bri had been §hrown, at an altitude which made it a picturesque feature in the ;; More. than half ap hour had not elapsed from the time the “ss : CORME OO Saori x “a *