The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-06-04

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Then the male passengers and crew
who were able to walk-all the others
having been already disposed of-were
blindfolded and forced, by prods and
thrusts of keen pointed knives, to 60
out on that plank until their weight
forced its free end to tip down
ward and they plunged helplessIy
down to the sharks that lay in an in
carnardine sea waiting to tear them in
pieces. Thus, one by one, they were all
murdered.
The vessel was then plundered OF all
valuables it contained. Load after
load the light felucCas carried from the
CORY deck of the San Rafael to the
pirates rendezvous on shore. They
also bore to the land their dead and
wounded comrades, the former for
burial-with crosses at their heads,
of Course-and the latter for hospital
treatment.
With the last load went FL Diablo,
taking along the two captive girls; but
before leaving the merchantmen he
had her scuttled in deep water, where
she would sink completely from sight,
and her fate, it was to be presumed,
left a mystery forever to all but her
destroyers. They did not dare to
burn her, for fear that the flames after
nightfall would attract notice and
bring down upon them one of the
Spanish cruisers that kept up a
pretended ard generally frultless
lookout for pirates in those waters.
Arrived at the pirates home, the
girls were speedily made acquainted
with the fate, worse than death, for
which they had been reserved.
Dolores was the prey OF the pirate
Captain, FL Diablo. He had person
ally discovered her, but independent
of that he chose to claim her and there
were none bold enough to dispute his
right to her possession.
Nanita was abandoned to the
merciless lusts of the gang. Among
them was rigidly enforced law OF di-
vision of their spoils. The Captain
had by common consent a certain
number of shares; then lesser num-
Der of shares belonged to his Lieuten-
ant, Ell Labo (the Wolf ,and Sanchez,
the Portuguese. After that, one share
each went to the living gmembers OF the
gang. GA share"of Nanita was valu-
ed at one ounce of gold.
Those who chose to abandon their
interest in her were entitled to receive,
each one, that amount from the 9TH
ers who chose to retain their shares.
Thirty-fve elected to hold their shares.
Twenty preferred the gold. Fifteen OF
the gang had been killed, so their
shares were already settled, not only
in this business, but for the future, as
it was law among them that all were
equal inheritors from the dead.
Among the thirty-five who thus had a
claim upon Nanita, gambling then be-
gan for shares, the dice being thrown
to determine whose she should be.
All this was done in the presence OF
the unhappy girl, who fully under.
stood the horror that confronted her.
The chances of the dice reduced to
seventeen the number of her owners.
Beyond that point they would not go,
for neither was willing to even take a
chance of losing. Still, they went on
throwing the dice for decisions that
may be left to the imagination.
BY this time night had fallen dark,
and, as liquor had been flowing freely,
the pirates were all in their most
fiendish condition. Then commenced,
in a wild oSgie, the last scene of the
horrible tragedy i'll which poor, bright
pretty little Nanita was sacrificed. II
was too revolving, too horrible for de
scription. Her tears and piteous
pleadlngs only amused them, and
made her seem more charming; hel
struggles for self-defense were in vain
her sufferings but whetted their bes
tial appetites.
She was almost exhausted and mad
dened by agony, shame and despair
when she at length managed to clutch
knife from the belt of one o
her brutal ravishers, and stabbed him
He, in the impulse, of ungovernable
drunken fury, wrested the weapon
from her, and buried it in her throat
Her blood spurted over him in tor
rent, and she laid in his arms corpse
The villains poor triumph was short
lived, for his companions, enraged al
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ture, fell upon him and killed him.
Dolores, in the cabin CT El Diablo
but little way removed from th,
scene of those diabolical crimes
heard the wild shouts of the mer
and the shrieks of the wretchet
Nanita for time, but her own agon
lied cries and vain appeals for mercy
\ yuero a0e.r1 r,1inolin0 with fhcaa Of fh
poor Andalusian, for she, too, was th
prey Of the despoilsr. Less fortunat'
| than her maid, Dolores outlived tha
night Of pain, shame and grief
An old negress, the captains slave
nursed her through the brain feye
that ensued, and when she got we'll sh
seemed to have philosophicalIy &C
cepted her fate. She became the mis-
| tress of the wretch who had murderet
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