José — page 276: what you’re looking at

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JOSE. 269 affair I couldn’t help laughing. It was the owner of the fort whom the redskins attacked just as he was returning from a marriage ceremony, that made him the husband of a very elegant young lady; the lady we succeeded in fetching through all right, but the young man was slain, and the yvoung womai has been made a widow even before she was : wife.” He shook his head and paused. “As for Pepita,” he continued, in a reviving tone, sitting down in the grass beside the friends; “she played the lamb until she got an opportunity to escape from the red coyotes and reached the fort. A few hours after the young owner rode away to solemnize his marriage she heard the Apache whoop and knew that unless she came to the rescue they _ would never get back home, so at her urgent re- quest the men finally consented to go, and arrived in the nick of time. They have sent to the fort for wagons to transfer the dead and wounded home, and for the present we shall go there, too. How matters will turn out, whether old Bob may take the wild bird home with him now or whether,” he continued, with a look at Green, “she will allow herself to be captured by a stranger’s hand, is something I do not like to think about. That young woman has something heavy on her heart, and it isn’t her husband altogether, else she would never have parted from him. Well, patience, it will all be clear enough by and by. Old Bob may now hope to be worthy to take charge of her.” He gave a quiet nod and appeared to abandon himself to his thoughts. For a while longer Green regarded the old man’s face; he then supported his head in his hand, while Eomichbooks (E(0)