Beadle's Dime Novels No. 316: Hurricane Bill — page 62: what you’re looking at

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66 HURRICANE BILL. choose with you. If you are wise, you will not provoke me too far.” There was something in the man’s tone tbat filled Carmela with a vague, sickening fear. She shrunk from him, ahd had it not been for his tightening grasp, she would “have leaped to the ground. “ Let me go—you frighten me!” she gasped, yreniilsapias “So—you change your tune very suddenly,” laughed Black Garcia. ‘ And yet I would be your best friend, if you would only permit. Men call me cruel and heartless, but you shall never have cause to do so, if you do not treat me too crucl- ly. You shall be as rich and honored as any queen—you Shall want for nothing that love or gold can give you—-” “ What do you mean ?” faltered Carmela. “ Well, I don’t know as there is. any use in wearing the mask any longer. You must soon find out the truth, any- how. To you I have been Don Blas Cayello—in the future you must know me as Black Garcia.” A cry of terror broke from the maiden’s lipspand_ she sought to free berself. But in vain, Garcia beld ber firmly. “ Bah! why do you act like a child? It can do you no good, and may work us both harm, for this is not. the safest of trails. A single slip here would be death, and though I loved life before, I have double cause for loving it now.” Carmela did not cease her struggles, until Black Garcia, his temper fully aroused, angrily said ; : “You must act more sensibly, or, in self-defense, I shall have to bind you, hend and foot.. I didn’t want to treat: you barshly, for I love you dearly, but I will, Unless you are quiet, You have sense enough to see that it can do you no good. Then why act so? Why not submit gracefully, since there is no help? You are in my power—nothing can take you from me. Your happiness or misery rests with your- self. If you are sensible, all will be well. I will make you a good and faithful husband. If you are obstinate and self- willed, then I must tame you. But this you must under- stand. You are to become my wife—you can not avoid that. It is your fate. If you insist, I will give you time to decide ——a week or even two weeks, During that peried, you will be treated with all. possible respect—your every wish grati- Kommic boo ks: com