The Maid of the Mountain — page 23: what you’re looking at

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x H ws P T E R 1 I I. "aan iniihe wtitning Tiliet called sis men. They sprung i] - up, refreshed by ‘the last night’s slumber, and prepared for . their mareh,.. By all they could Jearn, they mast be near the haunt of: the robbers who had so long made these mountain _sides a ‘shambles. The ‘Regtlators, as they made. their pre- | parations, cast-any thing ‘but loving glances at the Mexican bound to the tree... He lay there sullenly enough, his head sunk on his breast, and ° his discolored and: swollen thumbs lying where he could see them and nurse his anger against the men who had tortured him almost’ beyond: endurance. His grim face, lit by the rising sun, shOwed angry lines at every point. The Mexican blood ‘is.ofrthat. temiper which keeps a feud until the object of its hate is under‘the sod for- ever. The rangers) could see that whenever=the prisoner raised his’ head,.a savage glance fell upon Tom Elliot, as the man algne to blame for his disgrace and punishment. ‘There _-was trouble in the look, too. - He feared the Regulators miglit _Tepeat the fearfal punishment of. the previous: in - _ knew that, im the present condition of his hands, ert era 1 aT Wrbrew uv dtycote cil The band prepared breakfast, and one ob ding uesane to De. Castro, loosened his: bonds:that he might eat, and stood _by him with pistols ready, so that, in! case of an attempt to escape, he might shoot him down. The Mexican ate im sul- -len-silenee; and when he had finished, the ranger bound him again as securely as before,-and went back to his owri meal. _ When all had finished, on of thex! band unbound | — were armed forthe match. aug seals oi a dakgpeteb id Conmicooolks.conn