The Blockade Runner — page 193: what you’re looking at

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194 THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. “T shall stay !” Those three words were enough. The Unionist moved across the room and opened a door of whose existence up to that time the gunner was not aware. “ Dar wasn’t a do’ dara minit ago!” Scale Jupe, astonished, as the sympathizer motioned them into a room thus displaved. “Dis am a wonderful house, whar de owner kin make do’s in a mini in de solid wall.” Having stepped across the mysterious threshold Bentham and the darky found themselves in a small, dimly lighted room, entirely devoid of furniture. The Unionist next raised a trapdoor in the floor, revealing a dark, cavernous opening, and the head of a flight of steps. “We will descend,” he said to Bentham, who in- stantly clutched his arm. “This is flight!’ said the young gunner, hesitating —even drawing back. ‘Tt is the avenue to safety,” was the answer. “ You are still in Nassau; you are not going to leave it. Follow me!’ Thus answered, Bentham descended the steps at the Unionist’s beck, he was in turn followed by Jupe, who entered the underground apartment with many fears. The trapdoor shut without noise above the party who stood at the foot of the stair ina dark place whose dimensions they could not see. The Avenger’s gunner felt a hand on his arm, and a moment later he was treading a corridor as dark as midnight. Jupe was stepping at his heels. Comichbooksico 3