Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 65: what you’re looking at

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- THE PHANTOM CHIEF. | 69 3 ng behind a stout beech, where he partially re-lowle-l, bs while his enemies were firing at the place to which the “Rnother tree, he completed his load. Marie, whose course _ Was over a thick turf, which deadened the sound of her 3 footsteps, might have reached the crooked oak, had net some of the savages already descended into the rayine, ta = complrte the enclosures by which they meditated the cap- - ture of the combatants. = - ‘Her carcer was arrested by an arm. thrown abont her _ Waist—a tomahawk was raised above her head, but he = Who wielded it, on looking at her, suddenly altered his _ Purpose, and before she ecuid recover. sufficiently to cry _ Taising her from the ground, bore her, like an infant, into the wood. CHAPTER Y. On the morning of the second day after the events nar- 3 =F, 4 Fated at the conclusion of the preceding chapter, the coun- . cil-honse in the tewn of Chilicothe presented an appear- - ance of unusual interest. From an carly hour, numbers of women had been engaged in cleaning it, and arranging the os buffalo and bear-skins which served as ‘sents for the coun- _—-Bellors ; and the preparations were at length announced to - te complete. After a short interval, 1 Shawano warrior, oearetatly dressed and painted, issued from a neighboring : loge and entcred the honse, casting about him a glance _ Towed by several others, one of whom bore aloft a pole _— euriously ornamented, from the top of which hung a deer- skin pouch elaborately wrought with wampum and other 2 precious materials. These seated themselves nesr the | first: comer, on the right side of the-house; and the party . sceiving rapid accessions, that portion of the entire space =<, ee Fee "out for succor, he placed his hand over her mouth, and are scrutiny as he passed to one of the seats, He was fol-— propriated to the assembly was nearly filled. A few ates élapsed, during which a profound silence wae ~