The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales

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Reid Mayne. The Guerilla Chief, and Other Tales

Story 1, Chapter I. Cerro Gordo

Story 1, Chapter II. The Escape of El Cojo

Story 1, Chapter III. The Menace of a Monster

Story 1, Chapter IV. An Angel Voice

Story 1, Chapter V. An Unpleasant Misunderstanding

Story 1, Chapter VI. A Devoted Woman

Story 1, Chapter VII. Despoiling the Dead

Story 1, Chapter VIII. A Pleasant Explanation

Story 1, Chapter IX. Evil Imaginings

Story 1, Chapter X. An Implacable Pursuer

Story 1, Chapter XI. A Mexican Medico

Story 1, Chapter XII. A Side Conversation

Story 1, Chapter XIII. A Group of Jarochos

Story 1, Chapter XIV. An Infamous Epistle

Story 1, Chapter XV. Two Old Acquaintances

Story 1, Chapter XVI. A Brace of Bad Fellows

Story 1, Chapter XVII. A Riderless Horse

Story 1, Chapter XVIII. A Horse-Hunt

Story 1, Chapter XIX. The Captor Captured

Story 1, Chapter XX. A Cuadrilla of Salteadores

Story 1, Chapter XXI. Robbers En Route

Story 1, Chapter XXII. Dark Suspicions

Story 1, Chapter XXIII. A Fiendish Design

Story 1, Chapter XXIV. A Scattering of Salteadores

Story 2, Chapter I. Despard, the Sportsman. A City of Duellists

Story 2, Chapter II. Scene in a Drinking Saloon

Story 2, Chapter III. A General Search All Round

Story 2, Chapter IV. The Exchange of Cards

Story 2, Chapter V. Monsieur Luis De Hauteroche

Story 2, Chapter VI. Monsieur Jacques Despard

Story 2, Chapter VII. Hospitable Friends

Story 2, Chapter VIII. The Villa Dardonville

Story 2, Chapter IX. The Post-Office

Story 2, Chapter X. Another Epistle

Story 2, Chapter XI. The Cheque

Story 2, Chapter XII. The Missouri Belle

Story 2, Chapter XIII. The Two Pilots

Story 2, Chapter XIV. No One on the Watch

Story 2, Chapter XV. Pluto

Story 2, Chapter XVI. Monsieur Gardette

Story 2, Chapter XVII. The Pursuit

Story 2, Chapter XVIII. The Denouement

Story 3. A Case of Retaliation

Story 4. The Broken Bitt

Story 5. A Turkey Hunt in Texas

Story 6. Trapped in a Tree

Story 7. The Black Jaguar – An Adventure on the Amazon

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Despite the chagrin I felt at being literally hors de combat, I could not at this moment avoid surrendering myself to a feeling of exultation.

Both my chagrin and exultation were suddenly checked. A spectacle was before my eyes that inspired me with a vivid hope – a dream of glory.

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Perhaps he had drunk what had been left him, and thirsted for more! In any case, the earnest accents in which the solicitation was repeated, told me that he was thirsting with a thirst that tortured him.

I waited for another, the fourth repetition of the melancholy cry. Once more I heard it.

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