Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 34: what you’re looking at

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1 36 BLACKEYES. im Dolores brought a glass of the refreshing drink for her companion, and one for herself, touching her lip with her | finger, 10 cause him to remember the caution which she | had given him with regard to silence. As Royston drank the | pulque, several persons approached Dolores, and spoke to her in Spanish. It was easy for the young man to guess that they were inquireing concerning himself, and that the gul was explaining that he was her dumb cousin from El Pago. The questioners appeared to be satisfied, although one or two of them looked at. him suspiciously. 3 4 In a few moments Dolores signified her readinesg to dance, and gave her hand to Royston, who eagerly accepted it, and _ they whirled away in a sort of waltz, the step of which the young man easily caught. As they circled swiftly among the mazy crowd of dancers, hand in hand, and face to face, and as the maiden’s countenance became animated, and her cheeks glowed with the exercise and excitement, Royston felt that his heart was no longer his own, that it belonged entirely to Do- lores. He forgot his boasts that he could never be sufficient- ly captivated by any woman to allow her to trouble him: He thought that,he could never tire of holding that soft hand and gazing into those large and liquid black eyes. eaeevectes L But the dance came to an end, and the couple retired 1 the side of the room, where the hand of Dolores was claim- ed for another dance, and she was taken from her companion, — who found it easy to keep silence, as he was intently occupi- ed in gazing at her. he During this dance, a tall and dark-featured Mexican, adorn. ed with a quantity of gaudy finery, who had beea scowling savagely at Royston, twice approached the young man as if ~ | to speak tovhim, and at Jast brushed roughly against him, ale most knocking him down. As this was evidently no accident, Royston became indignant, and laid his hand upon his knife, d but was checked by a sign from Dolores, whose keen eyes had , ~— seen what had happened. Lip ti. ithe _As soon as the dance was ended, she went to him and di- rected him in a whisper to slip out of the door. He obeyed - unquestioningly, and she followed him, and led him rapidly toward the small house in which he had assumed his dis- ~ guise. : ? Ss ag * 4 | : Conmmiclhxooks.con) |