Don't murder a father before his own child!" "You are safe,--fear nothing," said Roland, and at the same moment, poor Telie herself rushed into the dying man's arms, crying, with tones that went to the Virginian's heart,--"They're gone, father, they're gone! Now get up, father, and they won't hurt you no more; the good captain has saved you, father; they won't hurt you, they won't hurt you no more!" "Is it the Captain ?" cried Doe, struggling again to rise, while Bruce drew the girl gently from his arms.

"Is it the captain ?" he repeated, bending his eager looks and countenance ghastly with wounds upon the Virginian.

"They han't murdered you then?
I'm glad on it, captain;--I'll die the easier, captain! And the gal, too ?" he exclaimed, as his eyes fell upon Edith, who, scarce knowing in her horror what she did, but instinctively seeking the protection of her kinsman, had crept up to the group now around the dying wretch.

"It's all right, captain!--But where's Dick?
where's Dick Braxley?
You han't killed him among you ?" "Think not of the villain," said Roland; "I know naught of him." "I'm a dying man, captain," exclaimed Doe; "I know'd this would be the end of it.

If Dick's a prisoner, jist bring him up and let me speak with him.