Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 46: what you’re looking at

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60 THE PHANTOM CHIEF. bad crowned his opening manhood with unusual honors, Marie’s fears, however, soon found a new motive. In- itend of the vindictive temper which had been her first ap- prehension, she was surprised to meet even with tender ness of manner on the part of the brave. The time which he spent with her grew every day longer, and lis provi- sion for her comfort, and that of her uncle, was more marked by evidences of peculiar regard for herself. A horrid suspicion took possession of her-mind, and the dread of what might happen to her from this source mingled with the emotions which had so shaken her spirit at the dying-bed of her unele. Unwilling to disturb his last mo- ments by the snggestion of prospective evils, against which it was too late for him to interpose, she suffered him to” yield to the hope inspired by the generous conduct of the principal chief. Now that the death of Colonel Victor had left her alone in the hands of Kishkalwa, her fears in- *reased ten-fold. Shrinking from his society, yet not daring to manifest her repugnance, every day renewed the strugele in her breast. The sleeplessness of her nights, added to the wearying excitements of each day, produced an obvious change in her health. Long after the other in- mates of the lodge were in repose, she would kneel by tite side of the room in which her uncle bad had breathed “his adieu, and iu the silence of night, seek, according to the faith in which she had been nurtured, the aid of those gainted spirits whom she had been taught to supplicate as rdians of human infirmity. One night, while she was thus employed, her attention was drawn toa slight sound repeated at short intervals close by her side. It was:soon apparent that some one was endeavoring to force an opening in the bark which constituted the wall of the lodge. The mode of proceed- wg adopted was so cautious, that it flashed upon Marie's mind, alive as she was to every possibility affecting her eaptivity, that there might be a message for her, which could not be safely delivered while the inhabitants of the fown were awake. Withdrawing a little way from the | Bye ‘he eagerly waiche.l, by the faint light of the mova, <> 2 ee ore ej comicbooks.com . -