Chapter 3

WHICH TREATS OF THE TANGLED LOVE AFFAIRS OF THE PEARL OF CARACAS.

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IX.--Discloses the hopeless passion between Donna Mercedes de Lara and Captain Dominique Alvarado, the Commandante of La Guayra 161

X.--How Donna Mercedes tempted her lover and how he strove valiantly to resist her appeals 174

XI.--Wherein Captain Alvarado pledges his word to the Viceroy of Venezuela, the Count Alvaro de Lara, and to Don Felipe de Tobar, his friend 190

XII.--Shows how Donna Mercedes chose death rather than give up Captain Alvarado, and what befel them on the road over the mountains 200

XIII.--In which Captain Alvarado is forsworn and with Donna Mercedes in his arms breaks his plighted word 218