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“A hundred pesos, señor, that the unknown defeats Major Delano.”
“Bravo! just hear the child! But I accept your wager, Nina, and—— Holy Heaven, see there!”
A cry of bravo went up from the crowd, for somehow the major was seen to catch the point of the unknown’s sword, and it pierced his heart.
How it happened no one seemed to know, and the explanation of the unknown was accepted, for, instantly unmasking, he faced the judges, and said in a voice that reached every ear:
“Pardon, señors, but the officer was so confident of disarming me he pressed forward, slipped, and, not guarding my thrust, my sword pierced his breast.”
He bowed his head, to await the decision of the judges, while from the lips of Nina de Sutro fell the words in a quivering voice:
“I felt that it was so. He is my hero of the Rio Grande!”
CHAPTER II.
DESERTED.
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A year after the fatal tournament in the City of Mexico, a grand masquerade ball was being held in a salon in New Orleans, and thither had flocked the beauty and the chivalry of the Crescent City.