The Illegal Marriage — page 108: what you’re looking at

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100 THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGK CHAPTER IX. THE DEATH OF OLD MORGAN. The report of the gun in the garden alarmed the entire place, and Ogletree with half a dozen negroes came running to the sopt. They raised Cecy from the ground, and, seeing that she was not shot, took her into the house. Morgan went in before them—silent and passive for a moment, then bursting out into demoniac fits of raving. It was some time before Miss Morgan opened her’ eyes. She saw Ogletree in the hall, near her door, and called him in. “Is he dead?” she asked, faintly. -“Oh, no, miss,” he replied, thinking that she spoke of her father; “he is not hurt.” “Look again! Look in the bushes to the left. Oh, go—go at once!” Ogletree began to understand her now, and went out to get lanterns. They searched the shrubbery well, but could find no man there, yet near the fence was a pool of blood, which trickled along a few paces into the road. ‘The fresh tracks made there by a horse, told the rest of the story. The assurance could not calm Cecy’s fears; for, if. able to get away, that cry she had heard was proof enough that Alfred was wounded. Even then, she thought, he might be dying by the road-side. The house was in confusion. Alarmed at the condition of their young mistress, the servants had forgotten Morgan in the other room; but he wag comicbooks (Efe)