Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
FRANK STARR & CO.,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

CONTENTS

I The Death-Dealer 9

II The Wizard’s Den 16

III The Cabin Conference 24

IV Four Against Forty 32

V Out into the Darkness 41

VI The Midnight Ambush 47

VII The Maiden’s Doom 55

VIII The Trail Divided 61

IX The Death-Dealer at Work 69

X In the Shadow of Death 78

XI What Will He Do With Her? 85

XII Winding Up the Web 90

DEATH-DEALER, THE SHAWNEE SCOURGE;
OR,
THE WIZARD OF THE CLIFFS

CHAPTER I.
THE DEATH-DEALER.

It was a sultry summer day, nearly a hundred years ago.

The heat was almost intolerable, and man and beast soughtthe cooling shade of the forest, to spend the hours until itshould in a measure abate.

Not a breath of air was stirring.

In a leafy covert, a little removed from the right bank ofthe Scioto, a form lay stretched at full length upon theearth.

One would have needed almost a second glance to havetold whether the object was human or brute.

Even then he might have said it was a cross between thetwo.

At first sight, a Barnum or a Darwin might have gonewild with delight.

The former would have thought that he had stumbled upona veritable “What-Is-It?”; while the latter would have declaredthat he had at last found the long-looked-for connectinglink between the human and brute creation.

There was the human form, though ungainly in its shape;but covered with hair from the crown of its head to the soleof its feet.

It was indeed a second Esau.

A great mass of bushy hair covered his head, which, fromits appearance, had not known the presence of a comb formonths.

A beard of the same reddish color as his hair, and with alike unkempt appearance, covered the lower part of his face,and reached up over his cheeks almost to his eyes.

These were small and deep-set, though sharp and piercin

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