Category: Adventure
Sympathy is a feeling admitting neither analyzation nor discussion. It masters us, whether we will or no. Persons we meet unconsciously attract or repel us at first sight. And why? It is a question impossible to answer, but the fact is indubitable. An irresistible magnetic inf...
Major Barnum was unarmed; he was offering up his life, and would not take his sword, that he might have no pretext for defending himself should a conflict ensue, as would probab...
1. CHAPTER I.Sympathy is a feeling admitting neither analyzation nor discussion. It masters us, whether we will or no. Persons we meet unconsciously attract or repel us at first sight. And w...
3. Chapter III.There was a long silence after these words of Don Torribio. The _vaqueros_, with their eyes fixed on him, endeavoured to guess his thoughts from the play of his features. But Do...
14. CHAPTER XIV.Several days had elapsed since the fall of the _presidio_ of San Lucar. The pueblo had been given up to pillage, with refinements of barbarity impossible to describe. Only the p...
6. CHAPTER VI.When Don Fernando left them, the governor and the major remained perfectly mute a while, overcome by the gravity of the news they had just received. But a state of prostration s...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The redskins in general, and the Apaches in particular, exhibit a surprising degree of craftiness when on the warpath, or preparing for a hazardous expedition. The best troops o...
9. CHAPTER IX.When his hand was no longer able to raise his sword, and he had fallen by the side of his companion, the men in masks--who had been chary of approaching too near him, out of res...
2. CHAPTER II.Don Torribio Quiroga, with whom we have now to do, was a young man of twenty-eight, with a refined and intellectual countenance, an elegant figure, and possessing in the highest...
5. CHAPTER V.Don Fernando and his friend, as we have related, left the hacienda a little before Don Torribio. They had made all haste to reach their dwelling. The _tertulia_ had ended at nin...
4. CHAPTER IV.A stranger opening the doors of this room could have fancied himself transported to the Faubourg St. Germain, it was so elegantly furnished in the French fashion. Parisian luxur...
10. CHAPTER X.His first care was to reveal to the hacendero, in accordance with his threat to Don Torribio, the name of the man who had originated the dastardly attack on Don Fernando, and in...
12. CHAPTER XII.Every extreme situation, as soon as it reaches its culminating point, must necessarily subside into a reaction of an opposite tendency. This was exactly what happened after the...
8. CHAPTER VIII."You will be right. I am unaware whether you know me, but be sure of this: I am not easily frightened; and if, for some unknown reason, you have led me into an ambush, I warn yo...
16. CHAPTER XVI.All the time Don Fernando was telling his story, El Zapote had assumed the _nonchalant_ attitude of a man perfectly satisfied with himself; nodding his head affirmatively at cer...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Deep silence prevailed through the wilderness, broken only at long intervals by the growling of the jaguar at the spring, or the barking of the prairie dog in his burrow. Stoneh...
15. CHAPTER XV.It was about four o'clock in the afternoon. The rays of the sun, falling more and more obliquely, were gradually lengthening the shadows of the trees; the birds were flying to t...
11. CHAPTER XI.The governor was rejoicing at the reinforcement the general commanding in the province had sent him. He knew it would be an easy task to compel the Indians to raise the siege of...
19. CHAPTER XIX."I feared something of the sort," said Don Pedro sighing; "Don Fernando was so preoccupied last night. I am glad your son has gone with him, Manuela, for it is a perilous expedi...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.We have already said that Don Fernando Carril, or Stoneheart, had passed the greater part of his life in the wilderness. Brought up by the Tigercat in the perilous calling of a...