The Wood-Rangers (Volume 3) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...pleasure the injunctions of his companion. III? spirit, troubled with the few strange words he had heard from Bois-Rosc and Pepe, was full of hope that the latter would be able to complete the revelation just begun; and he waited with anxious silence to hear what the ex-carabinier might say. But the latter was silent. The sight of the young man--whom he had himself assisted in making an orphan, and de. spoiling not only of his title and wealth, but even of hit name--renewed within him the remorse which twenty year had not sufficed to blot out from his memory. Under the dawning light he looked sadly but silently on the face of that child whom he had often seen playing upon the beach of ElanchovL In the proud glance of the youth, Pepe saw once more the eyes of his high-born mother; and in the elegant and manly form he recognized that of Don Juan do Mudiana. his father; but twenty years of a rude and laborious life--twenty years of a struggle with the toils atid dangers of the desert--had imparted to Fabian a physical strength far snporior to that of him who had given him being. Pepe at length resolved to break the silence. He could no longer restrain himself, suffering as he was from?uch bitter memories "Keep your eye fixed upon the road," said he, "at yonde pcint, where it is lost among the trees. Watch that point whilst 1 talk to you. It is the way in which Bois Hose and I do when there is any danger threatening us. At, the same time listen attentively to what I say." "I listen," answered Fabian, directing his glanc6 as hit companion had instructed him. "Do you remember nothing of your young days, more tha you have just related tc the Canadian?" "Nothing--ever since I learnt that Are'Aanos was not my father, I have tried to...