The Tiger-Slayer: A Tale of the Indian Desert
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Aimard Gustave. The Tiger-Slayer: A Tale of the Indian Desert
CHAPTER I. LA FERIA DE PLATA
CHAPTER II. DON SYLVA DE TORRÉS
CHAPTER III. THE TWO HUNTERS
CHAPTER IV. COUNT MAXIME GAËTAN DE LHORAILLES
CHAPTER V. THE DAUPH'YEERS
CHAPTER VI. BY THE WINDOW
CHAPTER VII. THE DUEL
CHAPTER VIII. THE DEPARTURE
CHAPTER IX. A MEETING IN THE DESERT
CHAPTER X. BEFORE THE ATTACK
CHAPTER XI. THE MEXICAN MOON
CHAPTER XII. A WOMAN'S STRATAGEM
CHAPTER XIII. A NIGHT JOURNEY
CHAPTER XIV. THE INDIAN TRICK
CHAPTER XV. SET A THIEF TO CATCH A THIEF
CHAPTER XVI. THE CASA GRANDE OF MOCTECUHZOMA
CHAPTER XVII. CUCHARÉS
CHAPTER XVIII. IN WHICH THE STORY GOES BACK
CHAPTER XIX. IN THE PRAIRIE
CHAPTER XX. BOOT AND SADDLE!
CHAPTER XXI. THE CONFESSION
CHAPTER XXII. THE MANHUNT
CHAPTER XXIII. THE APACHES
CHAPTER XXIV. THE WOOD RANGERS
CHAPTER XXV. EL AHUEHUELT
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From the earliest days of the discovery of America, its distant shores became the refuge and rendezvous of adventurers of every description, whose daring genius, stifled by the trammels of the old European civilisation, sought fresh scope for action.
Some asked from the New World liberty of conscience – the right of praying to God in their own fashion; others, breaking their sword blades to convert them into daggers, assassinated entire nations to rob their gold, and enrich themselves with their spoils; others, lastly, men of indomitable temperament, with lions' hearts contained in bodies of iron, recognising no bridle, accepting no laws, and confounding liberty with license, formed, almost unconsciously, that formidable association of the "Brethren of the Coast," which for a season made Spain tremble for her possessions, and with which Louis XIV., the Sun King, did not disdain to treat.
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"Here are the cards, caballero," the banker hastened to say, glad of an incident which temporarily freed him from a dangerous opponent. Cucharés shrugged his shoulders contemptuously, and looked at the newcomer.
"Oh!" he muttered to himself, "the Tigrero! Has he come for Anita? I must know that."
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