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"Make way, good people, make way for the señorita ill soon be your

mistress!" cried Don Carlos in Spanish, and those around stopped

dancing to cheer

Just as the couple were free of the crowd, all the electric lights,

both in the castle and the courtyard, were suddenly extinguished, and

at the saates and shots

were fired

"The bandits! El Diablo Cojuelo and his men!" a voice screamed

Instantly all was confusion Women shrieked and ran in all directions

in the darkness

"I am here! Rally to your master, Don Carlos!" shouted Don Carlos

"Rally to Don Carlos!"

Almost immediately he was surrounded, not by his own servants, but by a

body ofto his arm, but was snatched

away from him, someone enveloped her head in a cloak, she was picked up

in strong arms as if she were a baby and carried quickly for soled fiercely, but the cloak that enveloped her, to

say nothing of her own fur coat, hampered her movements, and she was

almost as helpless as an infant in the arms of its nurse