The Bradys After a Chinese Princess; Or, The Yellow Fiends of 'FriscoDoughty, Francis Worcester
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The Bradys After a Chinese Princess; Or, The Yellow Fiends of 'Frisco
Doughty, Francis Worcester
Detective and mystery stories; Dime novels; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
"You do not love me. I have gone away. Good-by. Say."
The cheat had been too certain. With a sore conscience, and a heart in
which memories of a hidden past had probably rankled all day, the
husband had been thoroughly duped. The thoughts that rushed upon him
maddened him; the first act was self-destruction.
And so, when I think of beautiful Marshlea, I always hear above the
murmur of the sea and the songs of the birds, the dreadful shrieks of an
agonized woman, whose innocent, childlike love had been the cause of so
terrible a tragedy.
* * * * *
A WILDCAT FULL OF FIGHT.
A fierce fight between a monster wildcat and two dogs was witnessed the
other day by Henry T. Frankelfield on Saw Creek, a tributary of the
Bushkill, in lower Pike county, Pa. Mr. Frankelfield is the landlord of
the Falls House at Resaca, Pa. He had been hearing the cries of the
wildcat for several nights. A recent snowfall made excellent tracking
and he started out in pursuit of the animal in company with his dogs,
Sport and Watch.
The hunter had not gone far when Sport struck the trail of the wildcat.
The two dogs started off with a yelp and followed the scent almost to
Saw Creek and then stopped. When Frankelfield came up he found one of
the dogs smelling around an old tree stump. It was evident that the cat
had been there recently, but had left again, after Watch found the trail
again, and the animal was traced into Little Pine Swamp. Frankelfield
remained at the edge of the swamp while the dogs entered it. He heard
them bark and knew that they had found their game, and he made his way
to the spot. He found both dogs at the foot of an old tamarack stump
which had fallen against another tree, and in the top of the stump was
the wildcat eying them both.
Frankelfield took deliberate aim and discharged both barrels of his gun
at the animal, but failed to kill it outright. Wounded and maddened with
pain, the cat gave a loud screech, sprang from the tree stump to the
ground, and landed on the back of one of the dogs. The infuriated beast
got one of its paws in on Sport and almost scalped the dog, while Watch
planted his teeth in the cat. Then began one of the liveliest scrapping
matches Frankelfield has ever seen. Snarling and snapping, the cat
fought both animals, the blood from the gunshot wounds dyeing the snow a
deep red. Frankelfield watched the battle some time, and tried to shoot
the animal, but the combatants seemed to be all in a snarl, and he was
afraid to fire lest he should hit the dogs. It was nip-and-tuck for a
long time, and the wildcat, although fighting against odds, clawed and
chewed first one dog and then the other, as the trio rolled over and
over. At last the cat, exhausted from loss of blood, gave up the fight
and was killed by its opponents. Frankelfield carried the animal home,
and intends having it mounted. It weighed forty pounds, and is the
largest cat that has been killed in Poke County in many years.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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