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Now that ere out upon the disht I had been within eight or nine hours and had seen both reat dread, if we should

come upon them, would ht the soldiers there? He had asked

i hound if I joined the

hunt against him Would he believe that I was both imp and hound in

treacherous earnest, and had betrayed hi myself this question now There I was, on Joe's

back, and there was Joe beneathMr Wopsle not to tumble on his Roman nose, and

to keep up with us The soldiers were in front of us, extending into a

pretty wide line with an interval between un with, and froed in the ain yet, or the wind had dispelled it

Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the

mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain,

though all of a watery lead color