Excerpt from The Pocket Magazine, 1828, Vol. 1In 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 PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.