The Gipsy’s Pledge
by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham
“I’m but a poor child of the forest, lady, a wandering gipsy, but I pledge myself to serve you if ever I can.”
The speaker was a large, dark-faced, black-haired man, attired in velvet coat, blue shirt, black pants stuck in high boots, and a slouch hat that nearly concealed his face.
His costume was a picturesque one, and his bearing graceful, and yet a trifle reckless and defiant.
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