Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 25: what you’re looking at

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THE PHANTOM CHIEF. 29 - Fenton been able'to Ilghten your burthen? I left him to make all clear to you.” ‘‘Oh, uncle. I have so wished to see you,” said the Niece, throwing her arms about the Colonel's neck, and bursting into tears, ‘ What a horrid night I have passed. Do not go on—I am sure we shall all be killed.” ““Why, my little trembler,” replied Colonel Victor, who, startled by the impetuosity of Marie, drew her with | parental fondness to his breast, and patted her cheek, **you must not be so alarmed about the drunken savage who came in yesterday—this {is not the first accident of the kind, and yet we know that the boats are continually passing up and down without molestation.” | But Marie was not so easily quieted, and it was only after a prolonged discourse, and some grave remonstrance on the part of her uncle, that she assumed a more quiet manner. Coming from a thickly populated section of the country, from which social refinement had excluded that ‘rough estimate of human life, and especially of Indian life, which she was now for the first time encountering, and ‘endowed with susceptibilities of a very lively order, it did not enter even her fancy that her revered relative cuull in any degree share in that indifference to unprovoked murder, which, amongst the half-civilize! traders and set- tlers, had just been so painfully brought to her notice. Yet the truth was, that although a bumane man, daily familiarity with such scenes had necessarily diminished his ‘susceptibility to their impression ; and it would have been difficult to convince any person, used as he was to the ‘state of bordér relations with the savages, that the braining of a single red-man could make much difference in the general condition of affiirs. The debaucheries of the major part of the company were found to have earried their effects into the operations of ‘thée®morning, so that the sun was high in the heavens when the fastenings of the Flat-bottom were cast off. Marie re- ‘tired to the cabin during the confasion attendan! upon the “departure of the boat, but when the regular dip of the oars infurmed ber that the crew were s;(Uled at their posts, she =a = ies — comicbooks:com = * a.» or P _" ‘ st ft 8 ea