Beadle's New Dime Novels, No. 49 — page 88: what you’re looking at

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3 THORNPATH, THE TRAILER ; OR, antered it. True, Mabel was there, lying upon a pallet furs, sobbing as if ber heart would break. She was entirely alone. “ Mabel,” Nora said, softly ‘ Mabel lifted her head and would have cried out with ae had Nora not placed her hand upon her mouth and whit “ Silence, dear Mabel; speak not above a breath.’ “Oh, Nora! Nora! how dare you come here ?” she asked, in a whisper. “ As the Princess Wannamiah, Mabel; the disguise is per- fect. I have talked with Red Hand and he mistrusts nothing. But we must act quick and cautiously before some of those more observing Indians meet me. _ They are all wild over the preparations for our lovers’ execution. Here is a knife ; keep it concealed, and in ten minutes cut a hole in the back side of your tent and crawl out. Then crawl along the shadow cast by your tent, until you come to where it crosses the shadow of the large tent directly north of this one. There wait, and Frank and Richard wil] join you. Remember—be careful, cautious and quick,” and Nora turned and left the tent. She now went to the other captives’ tent. At the door stood a guard, but as Princess Wannamiah was a privileged character, she entered the tent wilhout ceremony. She found the prisoners sitting upon the ground with their hands tied and then made fast to a post driven in the ground at their backs. As she ertered, the captives looked up, and through that holy communion or telegraph that exists between two loving hearts, Richard Stanfield was enabled to penetrate Nora’s disguise. She saw it, and, placing her finger to her lips enjoined silence ; then stooping, she whispered in Captain Stanfield’s ear: “ Dear Richard, you are condemned to die at the stake; but I will release you, and then you must escape. As soon as I leave, take this knife and cut out of the tent at the back side. Then crawl out and along in the shadow cast by your tent until you come to where it crosses the shadow cast by the next tent south. bee sn irrheves Namen . “ And you, stead Nora ?” commicloOolkS.ceon) ~ 4, =