Aimard Gustave. The White Scalper: A Story of the Texan War
CHAPTER I. A RECONNOISSANCE
CHAPTER II. A BARGAIN
CHAPTER III. THE RETREAT
CHAPTER IV. JOHN DAVIS
CHAPTER V. BEFORE THE BATTLE
CHAPTER VI. THE BATTLE OF CERRO PARDO
CHAPTER VII. THE ATEPETL
CHAPTER VIII. HOSPITALITY
CHAPTER IX. THE MARRIAGE
CHAPTER X. RETURN TO LIFE
CHAPTER XI. THE PIRATES OF THE PRAIRIES
CHAPTER XII. IN THE CAVERN
CHAPTER XIII. A CONVERSATION
CHAPTER XIV. TWO ENEMIES
CHAPTER XV. THE AMBUSCADE
CHAPTER XVI. THE SCALP DANCE
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII. A REACTION
CHAPTER XIX. A PAGE OF HISTORY
CHAPTER XX. THE BIVOUAC
CHAPTER XXI. SANDOVAL
CHAPTER XXII. LOYAL HEART'S HISTORY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE EXPIATION
CHAPTER XXIV. IN THE DESERT
CHAPTER XXV. THE LAST HALT
CHAPTER XXVI. SAN JACINTO
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There is in the rapidity with which all news spread, a mystery which has remained, up to the present, incomprehensible. It seems that an electric current bears them along at headlong speed, and takes a cruel pleasure in spreading them everywhere.
The most minute precautions had been taken by the Jaguar and El Alferez to keep their double expedition a secret, and hide their success until they had found time to make certain arrangements necessary to secure the results of their daring attempts. The means of communication were at that period, and still are, extremely rare and difficult. Only one man, Colonel Melendez, was at all cognizant of what had happened, and we have seen that it was impossible for him to have said anything. And yet, scarce two hours after the events we have described were accomplished, a vague rumour, which had come no one knew whence, already ran about the town.
