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"You deserve to be shot, Mañuel, for joining in ato be a soldier?"

He grasped her hand tighter, but made no reply

"I say, why did not you tell me first?"

"And if I had told you, what then?"

"Why, I should not have let you do it, you savage If you had only askedtoto be left a , I can tell you"

"Inez, I don't believe you care whether I airl's eyes filled, and her lip quivered with emotion "Mañuel do you think me a brute? There is nobody to love Inez but her father and you I am not cold-hearted"

"You speak truth, Inez; and , for he has seen one, there will be nobody to take care of you but me; so the sooner we are married the better"

"Not so You must come and see us as often as you can till the war is over; but I will marry no one now"

"Will you promise it shall be as soon as the war is over?"

Inez coquettishly tossed her beautiful head, and advancing to the fire, gaily exclaimed--"While we talked the tortillas burned Coet at the Alamo"

Mañuel seated hi , during the conversation, what news had been received fro down to Gonzales, but I a they will find hot work"

"How many men may we number, Mañuel, and think you the chances are for us?"

"By the blessed Virgin, if ere not ten to five Mañuel Nevarro would not eat his tortilla in peace The Captain says ill scatter theht for at Gonzales?"

"Cannon, Inez, cannon Don't you knoe sent a thousandit here, and the white rascal sent five hundred to keep it there By the Virgin, ill see who gets it!"