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Se you, I struggled courageously: that hope I no | onger possess. As we must die of want within a few days—a few hours, perhaps—I prefer to finish it at once. Believe me, you had better follow my example. It is soon done, as you shall see.’ While uttering the last words he drew a pistol | ie his waist-belt. At this moment cries were eard. ss at is it? What is the matter?” ‘‘Look, captain! People are coming at last to our me we are saved!” Sergeant Boileau ex- claimed, rising like a specter by his side, and seizing his arm, : The count freed himself with a smile. ‘‘-You are mad, my poor comrade,” he said, looking in the direction indicated, where a cloud of dust really rose, and was ra ppiy ao poeny ing; ‘‘no one can come to our al @ are con- demned to die in this infernaldesert! Farewell all—farewell!” He raised the L gem put the muzzle to his temple, and pulled the trigger. He fell to the ground, with his skull fractured. The adventurers had not yet recovered from the stupor this frightful event had thrown them into, wal the cloud of dust they had noticed burst violently asunder, and they troop of mounted Indians, in the midst of whom were a woman and two or three white men, galloping toward them at full speed. Convinc- ed that the Apaches had come up to deal them a final blow, file vultures collecting around a fallen-buffalo, they did not even attempt an im- er ce. : ‘‘Oh!” one of the hunters shouted, as he leap- ed from his horse and rushed toward them, ‘“‘ the poor fellows!” The new-comers were Belhumeur, Louis, and their friends the Comanches. In a few words they were apprised of all that had ha pened and the tortures the French had tired. ‘Good heavens!” Belhumeur shouted, ‘‘if rovisions failed, you had water in abundance; then why do you complain of thirst?” Without saying a word, Kagle-head and the Jester dug up the ground with their knives at the foot of an ee a= + pace ten aa, an abundant stream of limpid water poured along the sand, The Frenchmen rushed 4 in disorder toward it, “ Poor fellows!” Don Louis murmured, '* shall we not take them from this fatal spot?” “Do you think I would let them perish, now I have restored them to hope? Poor girl!” cast- ing a melancholy glance at Dona Anita, who was laughing and cracking her fingers like cas- tanets, ‘ why is it not equally easy to restore her to reason?” Don Louis si =_gee pee “100: reply. The French then learned a havé'saved them all, probably, had they known it sooner—that the ahuehuelt, which, in the Comanche Indians’ dialect, signifies the Lord of the Waters, is a tree which grows in arid spots, and its presence ever indicates either a spring the soil or a hidden source; that for this reason the red-skins hold it in veneration; and, as it is principally found in the oer te they designate it also by the name of the Grea Medicine of Travelers. Two days later the adventurers, ded by the hunters ee Comanches, quitted the desert. They ily reached the Casa Grande of Moc- tecuzoma, where their saviors, after giving them the provisions they stood in such pressing need of, finally left them, hardly knowing how to escape from their hearty me and blessings. THE END. ——<—_—_—_——————————————————eeooooo The New York Library. 4 LA HARD CROWD; or, GENTLEMAN girs Sister. By the author of Tiger Dick. 10c, No, 2.—THE DARE-DEVIL,; or, THE WINGED Wirce or Toe Sra. By Col. 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