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Title: Stoneheart
A Romance
Author: Gustave Aimard
Release Date: December 9, 2013 [eBook #44399]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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STONEHEART
BY
GUSTAVE AIMARD
AUTHOR OF "BEE-HUNTERS," "SMUGGLER CHIEF," ETC., ETC.
LONDON,
CHARLES HENRY CLARKE, 13 PATERNOSTER ROW.
1874
CONTENTS.
| I. | SYMPATHY | |
| II. | THE VIRGIN FOREST | |
| III. | DON TORRIBIO QUIROGA | |
| IV. | LA TERTULIA (THE PARTY) | |
| V. | THE AMBUSH | |
| VI. | SAN LUCAR | |
| VII. | THE ATTACK ON THE PRESIDIO | |
| VIII. | DISGRACE | |
| IX. | THE PRISONER | |
| X. | THE CAMP OF THE REDSKINS | |
| XI. | THE RENEGADE | |
| XII. | WOMAN'S WILL | |
| XIII. | PALEFACE VERSUS REDSKIN | |
| XIV. | THE CATASTROPHE | |
| XV. | ONE MONTH LATER | |
| XVI. | PREPARATIONS FOR THE CHASE | |
| XVII. | THE CHASE | |
| XVIII. | EL VOLADERO DE LAS ÁNIMAS | |
| XIX. | THE HAND OF GOD |
CHAPTER I.
SYMPATHY.
Sympathy is a feeling admitting neither analyzation nor discussion. It masters us, whether we will or no. Persons we meet unconsciously attract or repel us at first sight. And why? It is a question impossible to answer, but the fact is indubitable. An irresistible magnetic influence draws us towards people whom, if we listened to the promptings of self-interest, we ought to shun; while, on the other hand, the same influence compels us to avoid others, in whom this very interest should induce us to confide.
And it is an extraordinary fact, well worthy of remark, that this intuition, acting in opposition to our reasoning powers, seldom if ever misleads us. Sooner or later we are forced to acknowledge as right what to the prejudiced eyes of the world appeared erroneous, and find that our sympathy, far from deceiving, has only led us to the truth.
The result of this sympathy and antipathy are so palpable, so many persons have experienced the effects of this mysterious influence, that it would be superfluous for us to linger longer over the topic.
Don Estevan and Stoneheart had become acquainted under circumstances which might have induced enmity between them, or, at all events, made them indifferent to each other: the reputation of the bee-hunter, and the singular life he led, were ample reasons why the young and straightforward mayor domo of Don Pedro de Luna should feel himself repelled by them; and yet