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SWORD AND SADDLE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN MEXICO
Frank and Richard reached the major's quarters without further adventures, and to their relief found that the brusque soldier had not returned. They at once retired and slept quuetly till dawn. When they rose they acquainted a general officer with the attempt to lure them into a supposed trap, and the house...
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SWORD AND SADDLE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN MEXICO
When our young fortune-seekers saw that Maurice, the Major, was determined to depart to Vera Cruz, taking them along, they submitted with the best grace assumable under the circumstances. Frank remained in the hospital for several days, and one bright Thursday morning our two bade farewell to the City of the Angels...
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SWORD AND SADDLE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN MEXICO
The adventurers passed the American videttes or pickets without difficulty, and entered Jalapa with their beautiful charge. She had informed them that the family of her uncle, Dios Romedias, dwelt in the city, and to the house she was straightway conducted.
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SWORD AND SADDLE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN MEXICO
Grivalja the lassoer stood over the dead girl like a tiger at bay. His hand sternly clutched the hilt of his knife, and his eyes flashed a world of hatred at his boyish antagonists who faced him with drawn swords.
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SWORD AND SADDLE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN MEXICO
The sun that rose on the morning following the escape from Valja and his lancers showed the American army the tall church spires in the city of Jalapa. The city occupies a prominent hill, highest in the centre, so that the streets incline so much that no wheeled vehicle can pass along any of them except Main street. It is surrounded by a wall...
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SWORD AND SADDLE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN MEXICO
\"Come,\" whispered Frank Hatton to his companion who stood on the Mexican threshold entranced by the vision of devotion and lovliness which had suddenly burst upon his sight. \"Let us leave her to her orisons, and pray that in them may all our sins be remembered.\"
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SWORD AND SADDLE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN MEXICO
\"Another freak like that, and the Mexicans will take your nappers,\" said the major to the youthful adventurers, when they had related their brush with the enemy between the lines. \"They dispatch some prisoners a lanzadas. You know what that means, Frand.\"
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SWORD AND SADDLE; OR, YOUNG AMERICA IN MEXICO
One clear, starry night in February, young Frank Hatton burst into a room, occupied by a youth of his own age, and gave vent to his feelings in this style...
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