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A moment later, with a swift movement, she caught at the wolf mask and tore it from his head. "Porfias del Norte!" she cried, falling back and staring at him as he knelt with the moonlight shining on his face and his bandaged head. He smiled in that remarkable manner that ever made his face seem handsome to a wonderful degree.
"The grant to old Guerrero, Porfias del Norte's grandfather, was made by President Pedraza in 1832. Am I not right?" "What if you are?" "It means a great deal to Mr. Merriwell, as I will demonstrate. I have lately learned that there was an earlier claimant to that same territory. The first Mexican republic was organized in October, 1824, with General Don Felix Fernando Victoria as president.
With the smoking torch gripped in one shaking hand and the knife that had done the terrible work in the other, Porfias del Norte hurried from the scene of that frightful underground tragedy. "I'm the only one left," he muttered thickly. "I can't last long in this infernal hole." He stopped in the central chamber. "Where does all the smoke go to?" he exclaimed.
I looked straight into his eyes, and it gave me a fearful shock, for they seemed to be the eyes of Porfias del Norte!" "How did the man look?" "He had a strange face that was deeply lined, and his hair was very white." "Alvarez Lazaro!" thought Merry. "The self-styled avenger is seeking his opportunity."
The work of it he had begun." "Yes, the snake! I heard his boast that he was the reincarnated spirit of Porfias del Norte, whom he would avenge. The man talked like a maniac, for at the last moment he even asserted that he was Del Norte himself." "For you it is good he did not escape," said Felipe. "Had he escaped from the fire, the detectives would have nabbed him.
Porfias del Norte had a plan of his own that bothered you some, for he convinced you that he was the rightful heir of Guerrero del Norte, who years ago had obtained an extensive land grant in Eastern Sonora, and on this land claimed by him your San Pablo Mine is located. Del Norte had parties working in Mexico to obtain a reaffirmation of that old concession.
The rumor was founded on the claims of a countryman of yours, Señor Porfias del Norte, who held an old and worthless land grant to the territory in which Merriwell's mine is located. The grant had been revoked, and Del Norte could have done nothing had he lived." "Then he is dead?" "Dead and buried so deeply that nothing but the horn of old Gabriel can ever bring him up."
I had you at my mercy when I was treacherously struck down from behind. This Indian knows it, for he saw it all. Porfias del Norte, of all vile things in human form you are the vilest! The mongrel dog that bites the hand that feeds it is your superior. You are " With a furious oath, the taunted man flung himself on the speaker, clutching him by the throat. "Out with your tongue!" he cried.
They had now reached Third Avenue, and they boarded a car southward bound, which at that hour was comparatively empty, while the cars bound in the opposite direction were packed. While they were on the car Merry told Starbright something of his great plan to build a railroad in Sonora that should tap his mining property, and of his battle with Porfias del Norte and Alvarez Lazaro.
When the plot of Porfias del Norte failed and Del Norte was buried by the landslide in the Adirondacks, it seemed to Hagan that he had been defeated, and the taste was bitter to him. When chance led you across his path, he saw an opportunity to renew the battle against me, and he used you to do so. Behind you I saw Hagan all the while."
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