The Girl He Married A Novel Author:James Grant, James Grant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Original Publisher: Tinsley Brothers Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you ca... more »n select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XIX. INFLAMED by the potent aguardiente, after hours of long fasting, the tipsy crew were now making such a noise -- seeming to be engaged in an angry brawl or general melee -- that Lennard and his companion found the necessity, unarmed as they were, of approaching with circumspection. They could perceive Manuel Galvez, the Tuca- taco, and four others quarrelling, and all having their knives drawn, as the blades glittered alternately in the red rays of the fire and the silver light of the moon, which cast the shadows of the group far along the white sand. Jacinta was regarding them with terror, shrinking in the background, with a pale face, and a hand upon her lips, as if to repress a rising shriek. Three of the party were absent; Donna Dora, Trocadero, and Saavedra ! Where were they, and how situated, was the first thought of Lennard's heart. As he turned away, a nervous clutch was laid upon his arm. " Senor Saavedra! " lie exclaimed, on seeing the poor little man, whom he should scarcely have recognized but for his immense curled moustaches, so woebegone, so utterly miserable did he now seem, and so tattered in costume, -- " where is she ? -- where is Donna Dora ? " " Yonder seilor -- yonder; we may yet be in time to save her." " Save her from what -- the sea ? " " From one as pitiless -- but, oh ! senores " ' " Speak quickly ! " cried Lennard furiously. Agonized by thirst, and ashamed of his own weakness and terror, Saavedra could barely gasp -- " Trocadero, pistol in hand, warned me off to a distance, on pain of death " " And she is now with...« less