José — page 236: what you’re looking at

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JOSE, 929 own in a warm, passionate kiss, but as quickly she disappeared among the straggling crowd of red- skins. I was about to hasten after her, but the hand of my guard suddenly fastening upon my arm quickly restored me to myself. I saw nothing of the departure of the chief, but soon was made to feel the consequences when that night I was again .securely bound and quartered in a lodge with many a painful foot-thrust in the side.” The speaker pressed both hands against his face and was silent. “And assuming we should succeed in ferreting out her whereabouts?” began Baumann; “even though we should wrench her from the claws of Strong Bear—what then?” Green slowly straightened up. “You have once made me your confidant,” he said. “You were enthusiastic in the hope of finding your lost love, and doubtless considered the ques- tion, ‘what then?’ absolutely vain; however, I un- derstand you. It was a lady of the fashionable world whom you loved, and Jose is homeless and unhappy—very well!” he added, as Baumann at- tempted to speak. “From the common point of view you may be right; you might add that Jose in no manner is suited to the associations that are ours. But you merely take an unconcerned view of the matter. You observed nothing of the ad- mirable tact with which she preserved the disparity between her and the rest of the crew. nothing of this rare heart, bowed down by adversity, hoarding its treasures amid grief and pain—have not traced the proofs of her innate intellect as I for many a long day of our journey. Are such virtues to be preponderated by a lack of knowledge and social Gomicboo Ss) (elo)