Beadle's Dime Novels No. 309: Mountain Ned — page 31: what you’re looking at

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THE COMANCHE KING. 38. frnor ag prisoner. Proud as a Roman Centurion, and as brave, © brooked no opposition and had none. Yet, Silver Lance Was not happy. Why ? He loved the Blazing Star, and she did not look as kindly °0 his suit as he wished. Not that she did not give him any pe, for she put him off laughingly and said that she pre- “Tred to be a warrior rather than a wife. He was powerful, 4t even he did not dare to bend her to his will. He lay, half reclining, on a pile of robes in his grand lodge, “fore which his lance, upholding his sbield, was thrust into © ground. The lodge had many articles of comfort and ‘Ven luxury seldom seen in an Indian home. He himself had ‘opted in part the costume of the whites, and wore beneath '§ embroidered serape, torn from some. Mexican victim, the faded hunting-shirt of a western trapper. His head wags “OVered by a black sombrero with a drooping feather. This Was his everyday dress. When the note of war sounded hone’went out more gaudy in Indian finery than Silver Lance. “ Who waits there ?” he cried, angrily. — The lodge curtain was lifted aud an armed savage appeared the entrance. < “ Have the scouts come in, Mahinda ?” The Indian nodded and remained _ silent. ‘ They have brought no tidings?” | he guard shook his head and Silver Lance struck his | ‘lenched hand savagely upon the skin upon which he lay ex- | tended. | | “ They aré blind ag bats or owls. ¥ ee what I can do. Has the old prop back ?”? : ust go myself and , Minnitash, come “Minnitash is here !” replied the voice of that person as he "eed his way into the lodge. “Go, Mahinda; a chief and a Prophet would talk.” 7 : ave Man went out, Jeaving the two together. “ You have seen her 2” cried Silver Lance, eagerly. es,” was the laconic reply. — a look of eager delight came into the dark face of the ef, and a dusky red glow flashed up in his tawny check, x glance, the most casual looker-cn could have seen that fo conicloooks.conm