Beadle's Dime Novels No. 119: Blackeyes — page 95: what you’re looking at

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A “ BRUSH,’ AND HOW IT ENDED. 97 The three men in the old ruin gave three hearty cheers, in Which the women gladly joined, for they felt that their liberties Were gafe at iast, as well as their lives. “ Now, Fanny,” said Bent, “I will go and search for your father, I will find him, if he is within that horrid old temple, if I have to blow it to pieces. Come, Luke ; we will leave | Bill Ward in charge of the ladies, as lie is the safest hand.” Royston was ready and willing, and the two young men seized their rifles, and hastened down the slope to the buried temple, a \e CHAPTER XV. A SORRY PRIEST, BUT A HAPPY RANCHE, Tn insurrection, by which Padre Abrojo had hoped that the power of the Americans in New Mexico would be over- thrown, had been prematurely commenced, and it terminated abortively, A massacre occurred at Fernandez, in which Goy- ernor Bent, Sheriff Lee, and several other Americans were murdered, and there were other massacres in the valley of Taos; but the New Mexicans were only an undisciplined mob, without proper arms or capable leaders, and they did not at- tempt to follow up their successes, or to attack any body or post “of United State¢ troops. ROOT Padre Abrojo, who was one of the principal organizers of the revolt, was highly indignant at the manner in which it had been commenced, before the preparations had been com- pleted by which its success was to be insured ; but the ball had been started, and he could not prevent 1b from rolling as far as it would. » Ag soon as intellige received at Santa Fe, nee of the massacres and outrages was Colonel Price marched out with his_ troops, and met and defeated the insurrectionists in several en- gagements in the valley, in which they lost about three hun- dred men, and the Americans but-fifty or sixty. The arrest and execution of the leaders ensued, and the - padre found that he would have enough to do to save his neck ~ connicloooks.com