Beadle's Dime Novels, No. 11 — page 85: what you’re looking at

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FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, 83 walk; then changing his mind, throwing himself down again, where he crouched with folded arms, deep in thought. “ Had you no clue in the letter by which you might trace her?” asked the don, excitedly. “T certainly had,” was the reply. “ Well, well; where was it?” “T have gone beyond the bounds of my contract already,” replied Senor Velasquez, evasively. = “Five hundred dollars for the information,” said Don Car- los; adding, with a sneer, “ you make money On me.” “That’s the way I live,” was the reply. “Tl give you a check, now, for the information. ’ “Well, then, she is at this moment not a hundred miles from this hotel,” was the crafty reply. big ovee “[ thought so!’ exclaimed Don Carlos, springing up. ~ “Bat where—where ?” “That I must first find out myself,” replied Senor Velas- quez. “The greatest caution is necessary, NOW, for she is with powerful friends. In this disguise, however, I hope, to.suc- ceed. You haye, of course, taken the precaution of entering another name on the books ?” | “Yes,” replied Don Carlos; “the general . assumes; the name Ameyda, and I that of Don Johan—ha! ha! My ven- erable aunt, who had the liberty of choosing her own sobri- ; _ Our servants are quet, is Dona Marguerita—quite fanciful. dilled, so there’s no fear, unless the lady sees our precious faces.” airs 4 “That is all well; in my ministerial character, I flatter my- This much I self I can succeed in reaching her presence, have learned, that she is in a large farm that is very favorably diet fe she purpose of abduction ; for it must, I fear, come - to force at last. Leave me alone to manage by what artifice In the mean time, we are to I can best serve your purpose. have two piwg of our friends here, Senor and Senorita “ How do you know that 2” inquired the don. “Their names are booked. Idon’t doubt but that they will be here to-day.” “TI remember the little senorita,” mused Don Carlos; “she Was a pretty little thing, and quite took my fancy. Of dif- comiclooks.corn