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TRAPPED. 8 3 -iKnives would be in favor of the drunken Mexican, and if not, . Would endanger their plans. A sudden thought went through bis mind, and he reeled like a man under the influence of ~ liquor. “Good wine—plenty of it, senor. Like the wine that flows in Rome during carnival—yellow as sunshine, and makes : & mah fee) like a god,” “Wine, did you say, my little vacquero? my little night- Yambler? Wine, eh? Quick! tell me where it is. Carajo! be quick.” “Tt belongs to Senor Vidal—but you shall have it,” said - Humfredo. tle staggered to the closed Beek; nance the secret spring, — and it opened. Peg “Tn, Senor Bravo, good Boldier; md we eid drink until | ‘Morning. * Lopez entered ; the rock shut with a snap, and the light of ay outer world. closed upon him forever. Ne CHAPTER VI. THE FALSE PROPHETESS. _ Lopnz, when the rock closed upon ‘him, uttered a howl of Tage and threw his weight against it; but of no avail. His ae = - Situation then dawned to his fuddled brain, and he realized ; ie hs fact that he was closed in a tomb beneath the mountain. be awful ‘thought that "he would, perbaps, be left in that ark place to die for want of water and food, almost erazed is brain, and he yelled until he became hoarse, and only a “Som bound came back as if in mockery of his. agony, At Tengun he commenced -to grope his way in the direction of the chamber, wherein Marta now lay in sleep; a ray of light - showed itself in the Uistance. “ Courage, Senor Lopez ! Where there is a lighted - dips. , ery siete 3 is life—and perbaps wine.” ering his knife he: grep cautiously forward ‘until he comicbooks. com