Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 84: what you’re looking at

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86 BLACKEYES. oy “ An excellent ides, Dolores! But I ought to have some arms; a pistol and a dagger are nothing.” Dolores opened a closet, in which were two rifles, with their equipments and ammunition. Royston eagerly seized one, and Dolores twok the other, saying that she might pos- sibly be able to fight, if it should be necessary. They left the house, and hastened out of the pueblo, to the grove in which the buried temple was situated. On the way, Dolores briefly related to her lover her adventures since she last left him, and explained the relation in which rac aaangon to his friend, Bill Ward. When they had entered the grove, Royston looked about him, and declared that he could see no such thing as a temple.. “It is near you, but you can not look through the earth,” replied Dolores. “ Do you see that mound. yonder; with a pile of stones on top of it ?” “Tt looks like a ruined building. Is that your temple » “No; but it is the place in which I propose to eonceal you for the present. Tread softly, and let us hasten to it.” “Wait, Dolores! It is already occupied. I will swear that I saw a man’s head rise above the stones.” ‘Hush! There is the dress of a woman, and I see her face in the moonlight. It is the young American sefiorita !” “Stay here, Dolores, and I will go forward and reconnoiter.” said Royston, cocking his rifle. “I will go too,” said Dolores, “ for I am not afraid to fol- low you.” Thus they advanced together, and allie ascended the mound. CHAPTER XIII. A “BILL” THAT WOULD CIRCULATE. | Bin Warp descended into his dungeon, after his interview with the wife whom he had supposed to be lost to him, with far different feelings from those which had possessed him when he emerged through the trap-door. “He had married Anna Colatzin when he was young, handsome and ambitious, commiclooOolkks. conn