Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 32: what you’re looking at

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-¥ 34 BLACKEYES. “You talk. very well fora slave. Will you promise os you will not attempt to run away from me??, ¥ “ J will never leave you, as long as you will permit me ‘to _remain with you... I could not run away from = = “ But do you promise’?” “TI do, most sacredly.” “Oan you dance?” “ With you I can.” “Very well, I will let you: out, pes ye friends will not try ‘to follow you.” “They are good fellows, and I. can answer <i them that they will not trouble you.” Dolores unlocked the door, and held it ajar, so that ‘the young man could pass out. © Bill Ward looked wistfully at the opening, but neither he nor Bent attempted to take adyan tage of the chance afforded them by the girl, who was evident ly seeking to benefit their comrade. . Royston quickly slipped out, and eagerly seized the 4 of Dolores, but she gently repelled him, locked the door whieh she had opened, and ascended the steps, telling him to follow her as noiselessly as possible. The door at the head of the steps had been left ajar, and they quietly entered the large apartment on the ground floor, where two Mexicans were a soundly and snoring loud] Fuey then mounted to the roof, Ribvaten tal fing: the Iead, and descended to the street, which they found quiet and te. serted. The night was not sufficiently saps ee fang = from easily finding their way. | - Dolores, permitting her corpdition to nol ete of her: nee fingers, tripped lightly over the hard and beaten ground, en- joining silence upon the young man, until, at the sight of. some dark forms a little way inthe distance, she quickly turned aside, and walked in the shadow of the low and gloomy adobe buildings. “What is the matter ” asked Royston. “Who were those ~ ” people ?” Pitt mers don ’ “The watch,” 7 o" “ Who are the watch 2. “People who ‘are employed to attend to every body’s COMEIOOXS.COhn ~~ , a -