Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 43: what you’re looking at

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36 BONNY JEAN. and finally the lengthening shadows began to warn him that another night would soon come down. What should he do? He was half famished and beginning to grow weak. He could not imagine where he was, or in what direction to look for the timber camp. If he could only reach the river he felt confident of finding his way; the camp was down stream, and perhaps he might succeed in reaching there, after all. With this hope he struck out in a fresh direction, On he traveled, through mud and water; splashed with mold and great blotches of mother earth ; but still on he pressed, deter- mined not to give up. ‘Toward sunset he came upon a cabin standing in the midst of a dense thicket of pines. To all ap- pearance it was uninhabited ; there was no smoke coming from its chimney, and no visible sign of life about. He decided to remain here for the night; it would be a shelter, at least. So he dismounted, and tying his horse in such a manner that he was at liberty to graze, Philip passed around the cabin to find an entrance. <A few paces farther and he paused in surprise at the sound of voices within. The place was occupied, then, after all. Something—some cadence in one of the voices— struck Philip as unpleasantly familiar; involuntarily he drew ‘near the cabin, which was of rough logs, and applied his eye to an aperture. This was what he saw: A dozen men—rough, outlaw-looking fellows—were sitting and standing in various attitudes around the room; while in their midst—his ugly face pale and hag- gard, and one arm bandaged—stood Gabriel Black. ‘‘Ha!” thought Philip, smiling in spite of his danger, ‘fit was Black that I hit, then. Well, so much the better ; for I know Bane a doubt now that that man is ny, bitter, implacable enemy.” He bent his head to listen, not daring to breathe scarcely, while Gabriel Black spoke : “Boys,” he was saying, with an air of command, ‘you have sworn to stand by me, have you not?” (eo) =) cComicbooks