The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican Valley
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Reid Mayne. The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican Valley
Chapter One. Volunteers for Texas
Chapter Two. A Lady in the Case
Chapter Three. Officering the Filibusters
Chapter Four. An Invitation to Supper
Chapter Five. A Studied Insult
Chapter Six “To the Salute!”
Chapter Seven. A Duel “to the Death.”
Chapter Eight. A Disgraced Duellist
Chapter Nine. A Spartan Band
Chapter Ten. The Acordada
Chapter Eleven. A Colonel in Full Feather
Chapter Twelve “Do your darndest.”
Chapter Thirteen. The Exiles Returned
Chapter Fourteen. On the Azotea
Chapter Fifteen. Waiting and Watching
Chapter Sixteen. A Mutual Misapprehension
Chapter Seventeen. Por Las Zancas
Chapter Eighteen. Tyrant and Tool
Chapter Nineteen. A Wooden-Legged Lothario
Chapter Twenty. A Pair of Beautiful Petitioners
Chapter Twenty One. A Woman’s Scheme
Chapter Twenty Two. In the Sewers
Chapter Twenty Three. The Procession
Chapter Twenty Four. Significant Glances
Chapter Twenty Five. A Mysterious Missive
Chapter Twenty Six. The Play of Eyes
Chapter Twenty Seven. A Letter Dexterously Delivered
Chapter Twenty Eight. Looking out for a Landau
Chapter Twenty Nine. A Clumsy Cochero
Chapter Thirty. The Poor Ladies
Chapter Thirty One. A Transformation
Chapter Thirty Two. An Unlooked-for Salute
Chapter Thirty Three “Is it a Grito?”
Chapter Thirty Four. An ill-used Coachman
Chapter Thirty Five. Double Mounted
Chapter Thirty Six. The Pedregal
Chapter Thirty Seven. A Suspicion of Connivance
Chapter Thirty Eight. The Report of the Pursuer
Chapter Thirty Nine. Up the Mountain
Chapter Forty. A Faithful Steward
Chapter Forty One. Anxious Hours
Chapter Forty Two. A Holy Brotherhood
Chapter Forty Three. What are they?
Chapter Forty Four. The Abbot
Chapter Forty Five. The Free Lances
Chapter Forty Six. Saint Augustine of the Caves
Chapter Forty Seven. Over the Cliff
Chapter Forty Eight. On down the Mountain
Chapter Forty Nine. A Tale of Starvation
Chapter Fifty. An Encounter with Old Acquaintances
Chapter Fifty One. A Grumbling Guard
Chapter Fifty Two. A Danae’s Shower
Chapter Fifty Three. A Series of Surprises
Chapter Fifty Four. Monks no More
Chapter Fifty Five “Only empty Bottles.”
Chapter Fifty Six. A Day of Suspense
Chapter Fifty Seven. Under Arrest
Chapter Fifty Eight. The Cochero Dogged
Chapter Fifty Nine. Ready to Start
Chapter Sixty “Surrender!”
Chapter Sixty One. Conclusion
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Who Florence Kearney was, and what his motive for becoming a “filibuster,” the reader shall be told without much tediousness of detail.
Some six months before the encounter described, he had landed from a Liverpool cotton ship on the Levee of New Orleans. A gentleman by birth and a soldier-scholar by education, he had gone to the New World with the design to complete his boyhood’s training by a course of travel, and prepare himself for the enacting the métier of a man. That this travel should be westward, over fresh untrodden fields, instead of along the hackneyed highways of the European tourist, was partly due to the counsels of a tutor – who had himself visited the New World – and partly to his own natural inclinations.
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Without waiting for a word of invitation, Kearney stepped over the casement sill, and presented himself inside the room. Don Ignacio and the Creole were by this also on their feet; and for a second or so the three formed a strange triangular tableau– the Mexican with fear on his face, that of Santander still wearing the expression of insult, as when he had exclaimed, “Cur of an Irishman!” Kearney confronting him with a look of indignant defiance.
There was an interval of silence, as that of calm preceding storm. It was broken by the guest latest arrived saying a few words to his host, but in calm, dignified tone; an apology for having unceremoniously entered the room.
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