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Overland

CHAPTER XIV
15/18

Here surely enchantment and glamour had made undisputed abode.
All day the wounded and the women reposed, gazing a good deal, but sleeping more.

During the afternoon, however, our wonder-loving Mrs.
Stanley roused herself from her lethargy and rushed into an adventure such as only she knew how to find.

In the morning she had noticed, at the other end of the pueblo from her quarters, a large room which was frequented by men alone.

It might be a temple; it might be a hall for the transaction of public business; such were the diverse guesses of the travellers.

Into the mysteries of this apartment Aunt Maria resolved to poke.
She reached it; nobody was in it; suspicious circumstance! Aunt Maria put an end to this state of questionable solitude by entering.


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