Excerpt from The Pocket Magazine, 1828, Vol. 1 In about a week after this, before the shade of evening had assumed the dense sombre cast of night. A man, with his body wrapped up in a great coat, and his hat pulled over his face, stole cautiously into a brake of farms, and lay concealed within its thick' umbrage. He had not been long here, when two figures, a male and female, were seen to approach. They were engaged in serious conversation; and as they passed opposite the spot where the stranger was seen to enter the bushes, the report of a pistol was heard. Cbarlesl exclaimed the lady, anxious only for her lover, and was anstvered; Mary! In the slime tone of apprehension. The assassin had missed his aim; and after a few moments' deliberatidn, Mr. At kins hurried his fair charge from the spot. Their path lay round the knock, as the brake was called and at the southern corner a small rivulet ran in a deep ditch: While in the act of passing this, the assassin renewed his attack; he sprung unperceived from the bank upon Charles, and instantly brought him upon his face in. The water. A brother's blood, ' he cried; demands this of me, ' and he raised the pistol for the purpose of beating out the brains of his victim. Charles made a sudden effort to release himself from the assassin's grasp; and as he was rather a powerful young man, he partially succeeded. He got his adversary do'wn but in the next struggle the stranger Was again upper most. A few blows of the pistol deprived Mr. Atkins of all sensation, and he was in a fair way of, being incapacitated from all possible resistance, when a wild cry was heard, and at the instant the Gomulagh, with the agility of a monkey, sprung upon the assassin. With a single effort he firing the stranger to a distance; but, undismayed by this interference, he returned to the contest. Fool!' he cried, seizing Owny by the collar, away; you ought to know me.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.