Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 29: what you’re looking at

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THE PHANTOM CHIEF. 38 With a sweep of his hand toward the canoe, and a signifl- Cant gesture about his head. ** Long-knife paint !’’ . _ The Ranger started, and looking carefully at the canoe, - Seemed to understand the full meaning of this short re- ' mark, and said seriously to Colonel Victor : | “He speaks truth—well! this is an onhandsome «ttiek 1” | “What is it—there’s something wrong yonder?’ ime” - Quired Colonel Victor. “Why,” said Butler, with symptoms of vexation, ‘*some miserable, cowardly whelp has fallen on the old Man, and scalped him and set him afloat; it is a dirty bu- Siness! If there ever was a harmless crittur he was the Me; and, Lord knows, I’m no friend of theirn, bat I'll ‘Say this for him that he was too good to be sarved so for nothin’ 1% The barbarity evinced in the murder of the inoffensive _ Chief, whose corpse had been in mockery sent out upon ‘the waters, to bear to his own people the tale of wanton | cruelty, found not an advocate amongst the most callous Of the borderers. Bald Eagle had won the good opinion Of all with whom he had personal intercourse, anu his name had become familiar witl the settlers, as that of one who seemed a favorable exception to the mass of the sav- ages; and he found a ready welcome wherever he went. | The indiscretion which had induced a disposition of the Corpse, at once so dangerous and so useless, provoked the ‘Anger of those who felt least the criminality of the maur- der. So gross, even in that day of outrages, did this par- ticular instance appear, that it was one of the chief motives , assigned for the bloody ravages which, not long after- i ward, made desolate the cabins of so many settlers near the Mhio, But the boat was nearing the unfortunate victim, and it _ Was necessary to determine promptly what course to take with reference to the body. To allow it to drift on, was to incur the risk of incensing the neighboring tribes to whom it must shortly become known. After various sug- cComicbooks:com| of ie aie