Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-01-01
A BANDITS GRATITUDE.
How \ Traveller In Spain Was Saved by Silver
Cross.

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Harry White always longed for an
adventure in his Spanish travels, and
1t had come at last. 1t had been his
fortune to save the life OF a captain Of
the brigands, who presented him in
parting with Il curious silver cross,
This worthy had fallen from the rocks
and Harry had assisted him to escape.
Five years later he was in Spain
again, and, Wandering among the
mountains, he found he had lost his
way. A storm was coming up. and
what he feared came only too soon. Al
hoarse shout startled him, and he
found himself surrounded by band on
cutth! oats.
A smart stroke from the butt Of
Harry Whites heavy whip fe'led the
foremost man, but the rest at once
dragged him from his horse. and, in
spite OF his furious struggles. bound
him hand and foot
'Lct me Kill! tho dog roared the
injured robber whose head was bleed
ing freely. ''He shall never strike u
Spanard again.
"Not SO fast, Brother Juan" said
another. ''He looks like an English
man and the English are all rich.
Wen make him pay u fat ransom"
"And il he don't pay it quickly"
put in third. with Il significant whisk
of his knife close to the prisoners ear.
''his friends won't find him SO hand
| ~
Harry's blood ran cold at the
horrible threat and the roar OF brutal
laughter that followed it. He was now
completely disenchanted, for the
brilliant and chivalrous bandits of his
boyish dreams were utterly different
from these ragged. hang dog rufiians.
who almost chokcd him with the
sitting odor of garlic and tobacco.
Then his horror turned to rage at
the thought of being plundered and
insulted by these brutal rascals, and
: he inwardly vowed that when he did
get free he would spend all the money
he had in hunting them down.
The robbers laid their prisoner on a
horse and led him up a steep, Mgzag
path to q kind of rocky platform.
, walled in on three sides by unscala bic
a cliffs. while on the fourth lay q
I precipce OF several hundred feet.
5 Here about twenty more brigands
were encamped; and Harry White,
l suddenly remembering his silver cross,
n looked eagerly to see if the man who
y had given it to him was one OF the
:. band; but ne could see no one in the
II least like him.
d just then hasty step was heard be
low. and tall. dark figure springins
II up the rocks us nimble US a mountain
IS goat, came bounding up the platform
l. up with you, comrades!' shoute'
IL the newcomer. who was no other thai
Ill the formidable Pedro Gonsalvez him
v self. 1--WE have been betrayed. an
err all the soldiers from La Rcdonda ar
n on our trail. We must retreat Mt once
~ All! Who is this-a prisoner"
O. 1--WE took him in the valley yonde
c. and have kept him for ransom." RI
~ piled one OF the bandits.
IL There is no time to think OF ranso
d. now, when our very lives are at stake
ly said the robber chief, sternly. ''Tal
what money he has on him and the
"a fling him over the precipice.
Instantly q dozen eager hands we
riaing Harry's pockets; and the bra'
lad giving himself up for lost. pr
he pared to die like man. But, az h
watch was drawn forth by the robbel
no the silver cross that hung to its cha
caught the eye Of Gonsalvez, VI
spraug forward and asked, ''Whe
he did you get that CROSSE"
ut was given to me five years a
.at by a smuggler of these parts. whom
4 helped to escape when he was crippl
and by II FALL" replied Harry. looki
fxedly at him.
kes "And am the man who gave
said Gonsalvez, grasping his ,ha
warmly; ''and for that good deed J
shall depart free and unharm
IN Comrades. give him back all that )
have taken. Follow that path, VIII
will lead you to the village OF
,eer Tomas; and when you tell this OF
to your friends, tell them also q
und kindness is never thrown away, @
upon brigand. Boston Globe.
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