Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-03-25

venge if had saved your guardian till this
hour, that he might have seen your degra.
dation. But come now--et US have done
with this trihing Your charms would
render an anchorite callous. Must ! need
use force3" and, for the first time, he laid
his hand on the suppliant, and would have
torn away the covering which yelled her
painting bosom.
Had he beheld the tabled shield reversed
and gazed upon the Gorgeous face--had
he seen one of his murdered victims start
up through the deck before him, the Rover
could not have been more confounded than
at the instantaneous and unexpected change
which came over the virgin when she felt
his unhoy touch. Hitherto she had played
the part of the suPpliant, exhausting all the
eloquence of words, tears and looks to
save herself from foul dishonor; and her
captor would as soon have looked for the
lightning to have burst from the calm, sun
lit sky overhead, as for her to have evinced
any thing like daring or defiance. But she
did do it. The instant that she felt the
brutal touch upon her shoulder, she started
to her feet, and sprang back, with eyes
flashing fire, and nostrls dlated.
"Off-of, mscreant," she said, with a
proud wave of the arm, such as queen
would have used, "as there is God in
Heaven, if you approach one step nearer,
you die"
Perhaps there was something Of admira-
ton for this conduct which induced the
pirate to pause, even after his astonish-
ment had subsidized; for he certainly saw no
means by which his victim could carry
her threat into execution. Folding his
arms composedly on his bosom, he laughed
CONTEMPORARY and said,
Really your rage becomes you, and l
like your spirit. You are not the tasle
dove thought, and l must watch you
vel. Rg! nrav,' he continued sneeringly,
how long am to wait your pleasure, or by
what means do you expect to keep me
away"
do you see this train of powderl" SAID
the girl, pointing to her feet, while she kept
her eye keenly watching the face of her
captor to anticipate any movement he
might make, sit reaches to the magazine
and was laid after we saw you would over
take US; but in the strife of the battle was
forgotten. A lamp burns here al my side,
and with single dash of the hand can
throw the fire on that train. have known
this all along; but life is precious boon,
and we dare not part with it without
weighty cause. Think you else would
knelt so long to you, miscreant, murderer
as you are? While there was hope
prayed for mercy--I now demand safety
at your hands. Swear by your knghily
ancestors--for that oath alone you will not
break--to restore me unframed to my
friends as speedily as possible, or will fire
the train"
The cheek of the Rover might have
turned shade paler when she mentioned
the means of destruction she possessed;
but, if so, the change was only momen,ary,
and long ere she had ceased speaking, his
sunburnt face was as dark as before. Not
that he misdoubted what she said but Their
he had too much confidence in his agility
to suppose she could carry her design into
execution; and besides he was conslitu-
tionally brave. The scornful look still
wreathed his lip, but he spoke MOI; and his
eye dared not leave that of the maiden
And there they stood while one conld have
counted ten--each as motionless az if
carved out Of stone. She pale as death,
but with form proudly erect, and an eye
as an eagles in its wrath--hc, like sheer
ing fend, awaiting the first symptom of
faltering on her part, to spring upon her
and prevent her executing her threat for
we'll he knew that her excited nerves must
eventually give way, if only on account of
the unnatural tension to which they had
been drawn. But he mistook his victim.
If he knew her weakness she knew it also;
and during the short interval we have de-
scribed her keen eye was reading his soul.
She knew that all succor from without was
hopeless--that they were on the broad sea,
and leagues from any other ship--and that
her deliverance must come from herself
and in the way she had threatened, or come