CHAPTER XX.

Nearing the End

ILLUSTRATIONS

"This is a terrible piece of work" . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece._

"Good! Tetzcatl go to the Alamo"

"Heap dollar," remarked Red Wolf

"Ugh!" screeched the Comanche at the end of a terrific minute, and he sank into the grass

In rode the very airy captain of lancers

A dark, stern, terrible shape half rose from a couch