Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 55: what you’re looking at

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TWO CAPTIVES. BY The major ordered his other follower to make no resist- ance, and surrendered his sword to the leader of the Mexicans, Protesting against his capture as an outrage for which his 80vernment would exact ample satisfaction. He and Fanny Were treated with a-good-degree of politeness, although their Captors were indignant at the bad faith exhibited by Captain Sardis in making his-eseape: “Tlie priest, with a guard of ten Of the best armed men,,led. them,.toward the west, while the Main body of the Mexicans.continued in a northerly direction along the river road. Pri ts Major Buttress, asthe priest. could speak English with some facility, endeavored to engage him in conversation, and to learn what had occasioned the outbreak, who were the leaders of the. insurrection, what had been. done thus far, and what: they expected, to accomplish; but the. priest. only furnished aim with very scanty and unsatisfactory bits of in- formation, and his. answers were equally evasive and uncer- tain concerning the treatment which the prisoners might. ex- pect. to receive. Finding his efforts useless, the major relapsed into silence, or only conversed in a low tone with Fanny, who bore her captivity. with great composure. » We 94), aS They were thus taken, by winding roads, a distance of: about ten miles through the country, and it was near ‘sunset When they reached a_ thick grove, where they were halted. and directed to dismount. | = | They obeyed, and were led along a narrow path. through the grove, which was rendered quite dark by the almost impen- Ctrable foliage, until they suddenly found themselves, to their reat surprise, within an old stone building, without knowing — how they had entered it. The major was taken into a sort of Cell, his daughter was shown into another room, and they Were left to themselves for a while, . : iat er i + fete re tee, | i >? j comicbooks.con