In a few moments Senor de Castro began to regain his scattered senses, and gazed round him like one slowly awaking from a fearful dream.
He at length fully recognized his child. Then followed a scene too affecting for pen or pencil to describe.
But one subject remained to cloud their happiness. It was the absence of Alice Hewlett, of whose abduction, by Blodget, they learned from the old woman at the ranch. Bitterly did Inez deplore the sad fate which had befallen the lovely ‘Squatter’s Daughter.’
Brown fled upon hearing of the arrest of the gang.
Monteagle was of course cleared of all complicity in the robbery of the store, by this confession, and Mr. Vandewater gave him a share in his business as some recompense for his unjust dismissal.
The little church at the Mission was soon after gaily decorated, and before its humble altar the hands of Inez and Monteagle were united. Their hearts had been so from the day our hero bore the fainting maiden in safety from the flames.
THE END.
- Transcriber’s Notes:
- Some chapters are not numbered sequentially. They left as they were printed.
- Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
- Typographical errors were silently corrected (capitalization, spaces inside words, incorrect hyphenation, duplicated words) were silently corrected.
- Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book.