Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 63: what you’re looking at

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WHAT BENT sAw. 65 enough, now, that my suppositions were correct, that she had a part. to play in the scheme of the wily priest, and that her pretty face was used as a lure to draw poor Royston from his friends, I wonder what further trouble she has led him into. Perhaps he is, even now, as I haye. been, a prisoner in this _ old Aztec temple.” | There was another person in the group, by whom Bent’s curiosity was strongly attracted. She seemed to be neither a Mexican nor an Indian, for she was. attired differently from the others, stood aloof from them, and had: nothing to say. It seemed to the young man,.also, although he was unable to account for the impression, that there was something about this person that was familiar to him—either her dress, her figure, her air, or all combined... He could not. ‘resolve his thought. into any thing definite, as she remained silent--and ‘Stationary, and as her face was turned from him. good tips At last Dolores approached the seeming stranger and spoke to her, when she turned partly around toward the door, and Bent saw—-yes, there, was no mistake about it—he plainly saw the well-known features of Fanny Buttress ! £10) _ The blood rushed instantly from hig heart. to his face, and a feverish flush spread over his body when he recognized: her; but it was succeeded by a chill and a sense of faintness, as he reflected on the strangeness of her presence in that place: >. How had, she-got there, and what was she. doing there? These were questions. which. the young man vainly puzzled his brain to solve, until he remembered that his: Own position would be as unaccountable to her, and thet he reasoned more cally. It was. certain that she was not there of her own accord, but as a prisoner, and it was probable. that she had been captured in pursuance of the plan that had been detailed to him by Padre Abrojo.. If so, what was to become of her ? Was she: to perish in the general massacre that was contem- plated, or was she reserved for some such horrible fate-as that to which he was doomed? | iy Yo figs Yr The thought of these possibilities was. so terrible to Bent, that it produced a sense of deathly faintness, and he leaned against the stone wall, for support. When he again looked through the wicket, Fanny was leaving the room in the ecom- pany of Dolores, followed by the other women and girls. He connicloooks.comn