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When he protested that nothing would persuade him to surrender you to Cojuelo, I reminded him that the bandit had threatened to have him scourged and branded with hot irons, that he was absolutely at the devil's mercy, and I played on his fears. I warned him that Cojuelo was a man of his word and would surely torture him unless he renounced you.
"It pleases you to be ironic, Myra," responded Don Carlos. "Expense does not concern me, for I am very wealthy, but it pleases me to deprive the blood-suckers of their ill-gotten gains. As for the risk, I suggest you underestimate it. There is a price on the head of El Diablo Cojuelo, as I have mentioned, and the military have orders to shoot at sight.
"I made the promise, Tony, because Don Car er I mean El Diablo Cojuelo boasted that you would surrender me to save yourself," interposed Myra hastily. "I knew nothing would induce you to give me up, Tony. It isn't true, is it, that you agreed to go away with Don Carlos and leave me here?" "No, of course I didn't mean that, Myra," answered Tony, gulping as if he had a lump in his throat.
"That you are prepared to leave me here, knowing that El Diablo Cojuelo will force me to become his wife, and accept your own freedom rather than run the risk of punishment," said Myra. "You are prepared to renounce me, Tony?" "No, no, nothing of the sort!" exclaimed Tony, his face flushing duskily. "Nothing of the sort!
I told him it was not a question of money, that Cojuelo had fallen madly in love with you and was afire with desire to make you his own, but thought it might bring him bad luck to take a girl who was betrothed to another man, unless the other man agreed to surrender her to him, or, at least, give her her freedom. Mr. Standish protested that nothing would persuade him to surrender you to Cojuelo."
Standish think that even El Diablo Cojuelo could manage to keep Don Carlos a prisoner without fettering him. Incidentally, I must give myself the appearance of having been roughly handled or Standish may smell a rat." He flung off his coat as he spoke, tore off his collar and rumpled his hair, then ordered Riafio to handcuff him. "Garcilaso and Riafio will now thrust me into the cell in which Mr.
"We can explain that we succeeded in escaping from the clutches of El Diablo Cojuelo, or, if you prefer it, you can tell Mr. Antony Standish that I rescued you, and you have fallen in love with your rescuer." "I shall do nothing of the sort," exclaimed Myra with spirit.
Myra, are you keeping something back from me?" "Everything depends on Don Carlos and Cojuelo," Myra responded, evading the question. "Please say nothing to him, aunt, until I have spoken to him alone." "Oh, the whole affair seems a crazy nightmare, and I don't know what to make of it all," said her aunt, with another sigh. "I wish we had never come to this wretched, lawless place.
Somehow, the brigand's voice, muffled though it was as if he were speaking with something over his face struck her as vaguely familiar, and as Myra collected her scattered wits it occurred to her that El Diablo Cojuelo had spoken in English. "A Spanish brigand who speaks English!" she exclaimed aloud, and Cojuelo laughed. "Si, señorita!" he answered. "So we shall be able to understand each other.
"But now that poor Cojuelo is dead, you are going to marry Don Carlos de Ruiz, who has decided to give up playing at being an outlaw and devote his life to loving the most beautiful, delicious, adorable woman in the world. Kiss me again, beloved...." "I don't know how to explain things, Carlos, to Lady Fermanagh, and don't know what she will think of us," said Myra, a little later.
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