In Barracks and Wigwam — page 68: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER IX. A MIDNIGHT VISITOR. With his brain in a whirl of passion, indignation and grief, Linn Hilliard strode instinctively across the Indian - School grounds to the broken board in the fence. He ____ found the place still unrepaired—and no doubt, undiscov- _ ered—and quickly crept through to the road. ae Amid the chaos of conflicting thoughts, two things were uppermost in the lad’s mind as he stumbled along in the darkness, drifting without aim or purpose toward the town. And these two things were the cruel and un- just treatment he had just received at the hands of his father, and the terrible fate of Deerfoot. | He did not doubt that Deerfoot was dead; and while he : i felt a great sorrow and pity for him he did not fail to _ realize the effect upon his own fortunes which the disas- ter to the young Indian was sure to have. There was no immediate prospect of his innocence being. proved. — Bruce alone could do that, and Linn had no hopes from -. that quarter. : When he thought of the scene in Captain Cameron’s — house hot tears came into the lad’s eyes. He could hard- ly comprehend the truth. It was difficult to believe that he had been disowned and cast out—driven away from home with bitter and angry words, and bidden never to darken his father’s door again. __vest, and suddenly remembered the money. He drew it » He felt a bulky object pressed between his coat and out, and was about to cast it passionately away when a comicbooks.com