Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 42: what you’re looking at

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44 -BLACKEYES. Disarmed of his suspicion, Bent stepped within thé ‘door, As soon as’he had done 89, it was closed: ‘and bolted on ‘the outside: by the wean t and he once’ ‘more wpe a imselt'a = pe | . eae af BULL WARD'S DISCOVERIES. € Punnity't this may be all right, but # is sartin that I don’t like it at all,” muttered Bill Ward, when he found himself alone in’ the tinpleasant under eround room. bles he was bound to consider a prison. The honest hunter had good reason for feeling scious and angry. He well knew the crafty and deceitful character of the New Mexicans, and felt quite ‘suré that no good was intended to himself and his companions, by the course of con- duct which had been pursued toward them since they were brought into the pueblo, He knew, also, that the inhabitants were indignant at the summary manner in wh had been “annexed” by General Kearney, who had a clared them to be American citizens, compelled them to take an oath of allegiance, and proceeded’ to “appoint officers to govern them. He considered’ it'certdin that they did not re- gard the oath as binding, that they had only submitted because they had been compelled-to, and that they would en- deavor to throw off the yoke of the strangers as’soon as they could see a reasonable chance of success. Under such circum- stances it was natural that they should be anxious to get pos- session of himself and his companions, of whom one was an officer and the other an unusually intelligent soldier, while he himself had often served the army in the capacity oP a ate and scout. He ‘felt, also, somewhat vexed at his two fiends’ for ie ing left him alone when they went on their private errands of love and curiosity.+ Although he understood the meaning of the look which Bent gave him when he accepted the invi- tation of Padre Abrojo, he thought that the young officer Ccomicbooks. conn