Octavia's Pride; or, The Missing Witness — page 22: what you’re looking at

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12 OCTAVIAS PRIDE, ends here. ‘hough you met me face to face to-morrow, you would not recognize mé. You will find it impossible to track me out. But you will have the money, and your boy will be saved. Fail me, or seek in any way to cireum- vent this project, after you sail from London, and be sure my vengeance will find ‘you out.” ‘‘T shall not fail you. I really see no asa bari in the affair,” answered Captain Lo. | << And now when do you sail? Are you cleared yet?” — <¢ We shall clear to-morrow, and go out into the river, and get down out to sea as speedily as possible.” The stranger was silent a moment, evidently meditating. Then he looked up, and gave Captain Lo the first full glimpse of a pair of pale blue eyes. He dropped them again quickly, as though aware that he had been imprudent. — Well,” said he, ‘I will send you a note to-morrow morning, telling you at just what hour after dark, and at what poimt on the river below, you may expect a boat to bring you the passenger. You will be prepared to take as quickly as possible from the curious gaze of your crew the passenger you may call sick, but whom you will know to be under the effects of a powerful narcotic. And here is your five hundred dollars. I have concluded to give it all to you to-night, warning you that any withdrawl on your part will be promptly retaliated upon your son. And now I will take leave, wishing you a prosperous VP YREE and a safe riddance of your passenger. (Good-night, sir.’ ““ Good- night, ” answered Captain Lodovico, with thie alr of a man in a dream, and allowed his visitor to depart, as he had arrived, unattended to the wharf. He fell to counting the gold eagerly as soon as he turned the key in the cabin-door, and in an hour afterward, with the bag under his arm, the master of the Sea Foam pre- sented himself in the midst of his astonished and overjoyed family. ‘The sorrowful disgrace of the family honor was ' -comicboo ks.co