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CHAPTER XXIV. FOUND.
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Mr. Taylor and Julius had reached home about twenty minutes after Mrs. Taylor’s discovery of the disappearance1 of her little girl. The former was not a little startled, when his wife, pale and with disheveled hair, ran out to meet them.
“What is the matter, Emma?” he asked hastily.
“Oh, Ephraim, our poor child!”—and the poor mother burst into tears.
“What has happened to her? Is she sick?” he asked, anxiously.
“She’s gone.”
“An Indian has carried her off. I shall never see her again;” and Mrs. Taylor burst into a fresh flood of tears.
“Tell me how it all happened, as quickly as possible,” said the father. “I don’t understand.”
After a time he succeeded in obtaining from his wife an account of the Indian’s application, and the revenge which followed her refusal to supply him with money.
“Oh, I wish I had given him what he asked! I would rather give all I had, than lose my little darling. But I knew you did not want me to give money to strangers,” sobbed3 Mrs. Taylor.
“You did right, Emma. Whatever the consequences, you did right. But that is not the question now. We must immediately go in search of our lost child. Julius, call Abner.”
Abner was at the barn, having just returned from the fields. He came back with Julius.
“Abner,” said Mr. Taylor, after briefly4 explaining the case, “we will divide. You go in one direction, and I in another. Have you got a gun?”
“Yes, Mr. Taylor.”
“Take it; you may need it. I have another.”
“Have you got one for me?” asked Julius.
“Do you know how to fire a gun?”
“Yes, sir; Abner showed me last week.”
“I am afraid even with one you would be no match for an Indian. I cannot give you a gun, but I have a pistol in the house. You shall have that.”
“I’ll take it,” said Julius. “Perhaps I shall be the one to find Carrie.”
“Take it, and God bless you!” said the father, as he brought out a small pistol, and placed it in the hands of Julius. “Be
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