Beadle's Dime Novels No. 300: The Crested Serpent — page 61: what you’re looking at

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‘GONE. Ee a ie _ Riding up the mountain, the horses were given into the | fare of Humfredo; and, after bidding each other good-nig ht, ~Murieta and Vidal retired to their respective tents—one to. dream of oriental life on the shores of the Red Sea, and the Other to ponder over the terrible retribution that was so close at hand, | -_ Morning brought tidings of the defeat of the Tigers the _ day before, and the wounded were scattered throughout the - &neampment. | _ Two hundred more men, with two mountain howitzers, ™arched away from the Tiger camp to Vega, there to join - themselves to the dispirited and broken command of Arnaud — ad ~ S0ussard,: “Now I will crush these arrogant Liberals, who butchered ™y men. Curses on that Steager; 7s mind devised the ruse, ~Thnow.” 3 oy was late in the day before the Tigers commenced their arch for Paraiso, and in the north and north-west were omi- “‘XOus signs that a norther was concentrating its strength to - Sallop down upon them. | , Bs Cautiously the Tigers approached Galapagos; then with ~ “dual caution the Ladrones, whence the motte, where the Bal fight of the day before took place, could be distinetly ¥ - Skirmishers advanced upon all sides, and gradually the (ces closed in. The place was to be taken by storm. Dur- — 2Z all this preparation not an enemy had been seen, and it, ~ Would not do to charge them without drawing a portion of oe. €ir fire. Again, the charge was to be made on the narrow ‘ qseway. Fifty picked men galloped down upon it, and “toss and into Paraiso. No gun answered their headlong ne ‘wee, The enemy had fled. Three graves inside the in- eek told the story of their Joss in the late fight, while all _, °Und the motte were the Gead bodies of the Tigers who ‘ rd fought so gallantly. Gathering up their remains, they _ 4Signed them to rude graves, when a scout was sent in pur- ei Of the Liberals, and Boussard, with the remainder; re- _Thed, sullen and angry, to the mountain encampment. 4 7 ‘ Fy ®n, darkened the sky, and drove the rain in long slants to Se Comicbookscom) ™ =a —