Beadle's Dime Novels No. 309: Mountain Ned — page 48: what you’re looking at

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50 MOUNTAIN NED. voice at his elbow. He turned in surprise, and saw Blazing Star, still habited in the gray garment which had been thrown over her shoulders by the Flying Scout. She smiled slightly as thé look of astonishment passed over the face of the mountain man, “T come and go strangely, captain,” she said. “Think nothing of that, for I am a woman of mystery like my friend, the Flying Scout. Fou were surprised at our sudden disap- pearance this morning.” “T don’t understand this jumping down cliffs a hundred feet high,” replied Ned, in rather a sulky tone. “I thought you had dashed yourself to pieces, Will you allow me to ex- amine that cloak ?” “ Certainly.” He looked at it closely and saw that it was really what it seemed—a cloak of strong gray cloth, More than this he had no time to observe, for at that moment the peculiar In- dian yell arose in the pass below. “Tf you were going back to your men, Captain Campbell,” said the Blazing Star, “ you will have to wait,for there is Silver Lance and all his men. “ The—excuse me; [ ought to be with my men, and there they are about to fight, and here I am treed like a cvon. There they go into the saddle—burrah ! There is Old Rube and De Forest ready and eager for the fight. There’s that Greaser colonel, too—that’s he in the gay uniform, and Vil bet ten ounces he can fight; he’s got the old Spanish blood in his veins.” | | “ What is his name ?” demanded the Blazing Star, turning quickly upon bim. | | “Castelar ; his father was once Governor of Chihuahua. There is the od man, brave old Don, with his sword in his hand. He is in the Comanche country in search of his child, who was stolen by Silver Lance, years and years ago.” He was watching the movements of the troops so intently that he did not notice the sudden start with which the girl heard the name, or the strange look which she ‘bent upon the old man riding so gallantly in the van of the rangers, Sud- denly the charging yell of the Comanches was heard and the - pecans aise caaeat Ge