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"Mendoza, order Perez, Riafio and Garcilaso to get ready the whipping

post andirons at once," he colish for the benefit of Standish, whose

face went livid

"Oh, surely you won't be so fiendishly cruel!" burst out Myra

passionately "If you dare to harm Tony----"

"We ithdraw, señorita, and leave Señor Standish to nerve himself

for the ordeal that awaits him," interrupted Cojuelo, and hustled her

out of the cell before she could say more "I swear I did not lie to

you, Myra," he resued the door shut on the prisoner

"I a

Standish, but only of scaring hiive you to me to save hiive , you will keep your promise and

set us both free?" asked Myra, after a breathless pause

"Yes, assuredly--and I shall also keep rim reply "Look, is it not a picturesque scene?" he added,

with a change of tone