Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 81: what you’re looking at

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DOLORES FINDS SHE HAS A FATHER, 83 “Tt is true, amigo. Padre Abrojo is angry with me, and has taken care of the keys so that I can not get them. I am afraid to meet him, because he has been looking for me for some time, and races to make me tell him where you are hid.” “Tf he would come here alone, he could find me very easily, and I would be glad tosee him. As I am the only one who is free, I ought to do-something to help the others, and I wish I knew what to do. Can't you contrive some way, Dolores, to get Bill Ward out of that prison ?” “T can try ; the padre is absent to-night, I believe, and per- haps, I can do something.” “ Hasten, then, dear Dolores, but be careful to keep youtsels out of danger.” Dolores went immediately to her own dwelling, and found, as she had expected, that Padre Abrojo was absent. But she also learned that he had the key of the room in whieh Ward was confined, and she was unable even to per access to the underground portion of the house. | Sd Beit In her preplexity, she went to her mother for consolation, if not to seek advice, and was received with unusual eagerness and affection. NAS senllleiejays “My dear child !” deena Sefiora Colatzin, “why have you been so long absent from me? I have been’véry anxious to see you, for I have great news to tell you.” T have seen your father; he is here.” PAE ee “My father’ !” wonderingly replied’ Dolores ; “T can not comprehend you, for I hardly knew that I had a father. Where is he?” Sefiora Gutatzte then related to her daughter the particulars of her interview with her husband, disclosing the causes which led to their separation, and the manner in which he had pre- sented himself to her. Dolores, on her part, was equally com- municative and confidential, telling her mother how she had released Luke Royston from his prison, how she had kept ‘him concealed from his enemies, how much she loved him, and how her love was returned. When she had finished ‘this account, with many tears and blushes, she went on to speak of the peautifal American girl whom she had seen at the buried temple, who was doomed to be: slaughtered as a pagan conmicloookks.conn