Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 62: what you’re looking at

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64 = -BLACKEYES. CHAPTER IX. es, cea _.. DISCOVERIES... ) WueEn the young officer emerged fron his cell, he fon himself in a sort of corridor which ran around the great hall into which he had first been introduced’ by Padre Abrojo. He did not know what direction to take to look for the passage by which he had entered the'temple with his conductor, but reasoned ‘that ‘he might find it by proceeding around the corridor until he should-come to @m opening: =~ He commenced the circuit; ‘thereforé, keeping as — as possible in the shadow of the columns and within the recesses of which the corridor was formed, lest he might be observed by some of the priests. or nepal who, as he at hae inhabited the building, ©" cd bite Sabu He had gone about half way browne the corridor, when he perceived a narrow vaulted passage that Jed off to the right, As he stopped to examine it, he heard the sound of the: voices of women, that ‘appeares to conie — the extrem- that. he daenhd explore: | oe at Accordingly, he walked softly aire the preety a s-alaeaite of about twenty paces, “until ‘his farther progress was barred by a stout wooden door, in which -was-a grated wicket. As the sounds increased, and as they evidently proceedéd ‘from the other side of the door; he applied his eye to the wicket, and saw, in a room about twenty feet square, a number of Indian women and girls, among whom were two Mexicans. They were huddled together, as if they liad collected on the occasion of the shock of the earthquake, and were chattering in the Indian, or native: Mexican aye a a lanneeege” of = Bent did not understand a word: He plainly saw the face of one of thie omen sits; and — recognized her as the dark-eyed Dolores, who had taken Luke Royston from his prison in the pueblo “ There is that handsome traitress,” he thought. “It is plain Comicdooks.Cconn