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Johnston McCulley. The Jungle Trail
The Jungle Trail
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. IN THE PLAZA AT ANTIGUA
CHAPTER II "ANOTHER TATTER."
CHAPTER III. THE STOCKADE
CHAPTER IV. IN THE GOVERNOR'S HOUSE
CHAPTER V. IN THE HUT OF FRAY FELIPE
CHAPTER VI. BOTH PRIEST AND MAN
CHAPTER VII. IN THE GREAT WILDERNESS
CHAPTER VIII. THE SYMBOL OF THE GREAT CACIQUE
CHAPTER IX. CARLOTTA SPEAKS
CHAPTER X. IN PARADISE
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Johnston McCulley
Published by Good Press, 2020
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Ladies came into the bright sunshine of the plaza, too, some on the arms of their husbands or fathers, the señoritas with their grim duennas trailing after them as a bad dream haunts a man.
The Señorita Inez Malpartida was the first of these—a dainty bit of femininity, with tiny feet twinkling beneath silken skirts and tiny hands grasping the folds of her mantilla, and black eyes that sparkled and dimples that played about a perfect chin, and black hair in a mass, a high comb glittering in the back of it. She smiled upon the caballeros, upon the servile natives, at the trees and the buildings and tine gulf—smiled upon life in the concrete with the optimism of twenty years.
