Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 22: what you’re looking at

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26 THE PHANTOM CHIEF. high hoss—Td ha’ slept all night as for them, but you started me easy enough. I'm used to’em; but youmade © one think there was somethin’ more.” “ But they’ve killed some one—an Indian—cun’t you call Colonel Victor ?". ‘*Killed him? it’s like enough! They're goin’ it hard to-night, and I thought he would have better moved his traps. | But it’s no use, marm, to be anyways troubled— no harm will come to yon; and as for the Colonel, he’s not far off.” . 80 saying, the speaker seemed to be replacing himself as comfortably as he could upon the floor, and Marie, finding it useless to urge him further, shrank back to her couch, and covering her head, sobbed and prayel, until wearied by her intense excitement, she fell into an uneasy sleep. The reader will readily believe that the transactions of the night—of a kind then too frequent on the frontiers for us to discredit their reality—gave additional strength to the fears with which the timid girl had taken leave of her uncle. When sbe awoke in the morning, the vivid recur- rence of the terrible scene so affected ler, that pressing her hands upon her eyes, she fairly wept alow! But this in‘iulgence coull not be prolonged; the grey dawn, which had barely rendered visible the sides of the hut, was brightening into a clear glow, and it was necessary to be ready bvtimes for the movements of the day. Hastily ar- ranging ber dress, she sought her uncle with the hope that the bloody excess of which she had been a witness ‘and which she doubted not had come to his knowledge, . _ might effect a change in the result of bis conf-rence. To her disappointment, she learned that Colonel Victor had gone down to the boat, and with a heavy heart, she ‘walked up and down before the hat. | The fort, which was built early in the revolutionary War, Was the first step towarls forming that large sald busy town of Wheeling. The landscape wffered to Mart-’s eye possesse:| none of tne features of 2 seitlement. Io the river, in front, lay an exteusive islau, of fora ap s | COMMICOOOKS.COm) ,