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and the hour Suddenly three other horse a pistol at his head, requested him in

a stentorial voice for his er instantly produced a pistol of his own, and before the

astonished highwayman could coed it full in his face With a loud yell the robber reeled and

fell fro both his companions fired their

pistols at the traveler, and bore, with a sie, down

upon hied

highwaymen would have made short work of their victiht, ridden to the rescue Drawing his sword,

with one vigorous blow he placed another of the assassins hors de

conant

blood, was turning (like a second St George at the Dragon), upon the

other, when that individual, thinking discretion the better part of

valor, instantaneously turned tail and fled The whole brisk little

episode had not occupied five an before it had triuer's cool criticism, as he

deliberately wiped his blood=stained sword, and placed it in a velvet

scabbard "Our friends, there, got h, but for you, Sir," he said, politely raising hi, "I should probably have been ere this in heaven, or--the other

place"